From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 17 21:59:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA28568 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mojo.calyx.net (qmailr@mojo.calyx.net [208.132.136.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA28561 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 24082 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jul 1997 05:03:03 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 01:03:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Nick Merrill To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: Swee-Chuan Khoo , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to make your name server invulnerable: upgrade to BIND 8.1.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Swee-Chuan Khoo wrote: > > i guess 4.9.6 will work too. > > Yes, and the distribution for bind-4.9.6-REL actually comes preconfigured > for FreeBSD and BSD4.4 friends, so simply unpack, type 'make' and it does. which is cool. however - although the new BIND 8.1.1 isn't preconfigured for FreeBSD AFAIK, it is the new way BIND will be in the future in a new format, and I would rather follow TIS's advice and use 8.1.1 rather than go against their knowledge. YMMV. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Merrill 24 Hour pager: 917-381-0500 Voice: 212-292-7325 President / CEO http://www.calyx.net Fax : 212-292-7313 Calyx Internet Access 271 E. 10th St. #100 NYC 10009 Email: nick@calyx.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------