From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 24 01:39:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA16155 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Dec 1995 01:39:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA16122 for ; Sun, 24 Dec 1995 01:38:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA09969; Sun, 24 Dec 1995 10:38:41 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA08339; Sun, 24 Dec 1995 10:38:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA29998; Sun, 24 Dec 1995 10:11:12 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512240911.KAA29998@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A Good OS for BIND? (fwd) To: bind-users@vix.com Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 10:11:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512240740.IAA07566@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Dec 24, 95 08:40:00 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Picked this message up from the bind list. > Any takers to answer this? > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de You could have answered this yourself, Chris. :-) > Forwarded message: > > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 95 14:11:57 CST > > From: Mike.Jenkins@ncts.navy.mil (Mike Jenkins) > > Message-Id: <9512222011.AA24236@pegasus.ncts.navy.mil> > > To: bind-users@vix.com > > Subject: A Good OS for BIND? > > Sender: > > Precedence: bulk > > Reply-To: Mike.Jenkins@ncts.navy.mil (Mike Jenkins) > > > > With the SunOS 4.1.X limitations (file descriptors and VM system) > > would one of the BSD 4.4 OS's (NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSD/OS) be a better > > choice for running BIND? What other OS's would be a good choice? The 4.4BSD's are certainly suitable platforms to run it. Even old and slow machines like a µVax 2000 or an i386/16 are known to run all versions of BIND fine. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)