<div dir="auto"><div>FreeBSD gets my vote. Current version is 14.3 and Bind PKG is 9.20.10.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Easy to install and maintain.</div><div dir="auto">Fairly easy on resources.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If this is a commercial installation, make certain to have BSD talent on staff. Linux talent is helpful but BSD has some differences.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If it's just for home, the leaning curve is pretty quick.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Make sure to run some sort of time app (NTP, Chrony, etc.) Use of ANY encryption requires correct time. (e.g. DNSSEC including validation, signed transfers/updates, etc.) Good practice just to include it by default.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are lots of resources available on the Internet. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Bob</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from my Google Pixel 9a phone.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 09:19 <<a href="mailto:bind-users-request@lists.isc.org">bind-users-request@lists.isc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send bind-users mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: suggetsed distro for Bind (Renzo Marengo)<br>
2. RE: suggetsed distro for Bind (Marc)<br>
3. Re: suggetsed distro for Bind (Michal Nowak)<br>
4. Re: suggetsed distro for Bind (Ond?ej Sur?)<br>
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:10:48 +0200<br>
From: Renzo Marengo <<a href="mailto:buckroger2011@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">buckroger2011@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Ond?ej Sur? <<a href="mailto:ondrej@isc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ondrej@isc.org</a>><br>
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Thank you very much, I verified and I'm interesting to:<br>
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS / AlmaLinux 8, 9<br>
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what do I think about Oracle Linux 9 ? It' based on RedHat code.<br>
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Il giorno mer 23 lug 2025 alle ore 15:05 Ond?ej Sur? <<a href="mailto:ondrej@isc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ondrej@isc.org</a>> ha<br>
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> It would be best to pick something from a list of supported platforms:<br>
> <a href="https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.11/chapter2.html#supported-platforms" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.11/chapter2.html#supported-platforms</a><br>
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> And then cross-check it with list of ISC provided packages (Fedora,<br>
> RHEL-like, Debian, Ubuntu) if you want a base system that changes less<br>
> often.<br>
><br>
> Or just any distro with Podman/Docker.<br>
><br>
> FreeBSD packages are also well maintained in ports.<br>
><br>
> I guess rolling distros like Arch Linux should also work well.<br>
><br>
> But definitely not something that reached end-of-life last year (CentOS<br>
> Linux 7 reached end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024).<br>
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> Ondrej<br>
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> On 23. 7. 2025, at 14:54, Renzo Marengo <<a href="mailto:buckroger2011@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">buckroger2011@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> ?<br>
> I'd like to migrate from bind 9.11 lo last version.<br>
> This service is acting as cache dns server and It' running on Centos 7<br>
> server, what Linux distro do you suggest me for new Bind?<br>
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:14:51 +0000<br>
From: Marc <<a href="mailto:Marc@f1-outsourcing.eu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Marc@f1-outsourcing.eu</a>><br>
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Subject: RE: suggetsed distro for Bind<br>
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Then maybe rocky. CentOS is not the same any more. Although for just bind it does not matter that much<br>
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> Thank you very much, I verified and I'm interesting to:<br>
> <br>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS / AlmaLinux 8, 9<br>
> <br>
> what do I think about Oracle Linux 9 ? It' based on RedHat code.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Il giorno mer 23 lug 2025 alle ore 15:05 Ond?ej Sur? <<a href="mailto:ondrej@isc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ondrej@isc.org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ondrej@isc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ondrej@isc.org</a>> > ha scritto:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> It would be best to pick something from a list of supported<br>
> platforms:<br>
> <a href="https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.11/chapter2.html#supported-" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.11/chapter2.html#supported-</a><br>
> platforms<br>
> <br>
> And then cross-check it with list of ISC provided packages (Fedora,<br>
> RHEL-like, Debian, Ubuntu) if you want a base system that changes less<br>
> often.<br>
> <br>
> Or just any distro with Podman/Docker.<br>
> <br>
> FreeBSD packages are also well maintained in ports.<br>
> <br>
> I guess rolling distros like Arch Linux should also work well.<br>
> <br>
> But definitely not something that reached end-of-life last year<br>
> (CentOS Linux 7 reached end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024).<br>
> <br>
> Ondrej<br>
> --<br>
> Ond?ej Sur? ? ISC (He/Him)<br>
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> My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do<br>
> not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours.<br>
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> On 23. 7. 2025, at 14:54, Renzo Marengo<br>
> <<a href="mailto:buckroger2011@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">buckroger2011@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:buckroger2011@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">buckroger2011@gmail.com</a>> > wrote:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> I'd like to migrate from bind 9.11 lo last version.<br>
> This service is acting as cache dns server and It' running on<br>
> Centos 7 server, what Linux distro do you suggest me for new Bind?<br>
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Message: 3<br>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:15:21 +0200<br>
From: Michal Nowak <<a href="mailto:mnowak@isc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mnowak@isc.org</a>><br>
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On 23/07/2025 15:10, Renzo Marengo wrote:<br>
> Thank you very much, I verified and I'm interesting to:<br>
> <br>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS / AlmaLinux 8, 9<br>
> <br>
> what do I think? about Oracle Linux 9 ? It' based on RedHat code.<br>
<br>
It will work just fine as any other RHEL fork.<br>
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Message: 4<br>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:19:14 +0200<br>
From: Ond?ej Sur? <<a href="mailto:ondrej@isc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ondrej@isc.org</a>><br>
To: Carlos Horowicz <<a href="mailto:carlos@planisys.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">carlos@planisys.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: suggetsed distro for Bind<br>
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Docker/Podman is just a container, not *-virtualization platform, so there?s full access to the underlying hardware.<br>
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> On 23. 7. 2025, at 15:10, Carlos Horowicz via bind-users <<a href="mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bind-users@lists.isc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> ?<br>
> I?m not sure if a container will pass through the CPU instruction set required to leverage hardware acceleration on newer (or even not-so-new) Intel processors. In KVM, for example, you have to enable it explicitly.<br>
> <br>
> One way to check for supported instructions is:<br>
> <br>
> grep -o -w 'aes\|sha_ni\|pclmulqdq\|rdseed\|rdrand\|avx\|avx2\|avx512' /proc/cpuinfo | sort | uniq<br>
> <br>
> Hardware acceleration can be beneficial if you?re running a resolver that performs a lot of DNSSEC validation?SHA_NI in particular can speed up operations involving DS/NSEC/NSEC3 records. That said, if you?re only running an authoritative server or a small-scale resolver, crypto acceleration may not be critical.<br>
> <br>
> Fwiw, my preferred distro for running BIND9 is Debian 12?it includes dnstap support out of the box.<br>
> <br>
>> On 23/07/2025 14:57, Marc wrote:<br>
>> Maybe consider running it in a container and keeping nice and small with alpine linux<br>
>> <br>
>>> I'd like to migrate from bind 9.11 lo last version.<br>
>>> This service is acting as cache dns server and It' running on Centos 7<br>
>>> server, what Linux distro do you suggest me for new Bind?<br>
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