Re: Difference between bind and bind9

["Dennis G. Wicks" <wix@eskimo.com>]

Sven Joachim wrote the following on 04/10/2008 09:55 AM:
> Hello Dennis,
>
> On 2008-04-10 16:37 +0200, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
>
> > I was just doing some reading about DNS and came across a reference to
> > bind9. I find that there are packages for both a bind and a bind9 in
> > the dist. What is the difference between them?
>
> The bind package includes version 8 of the nameserver, bind9 version 9.
>
> > Any particular preferences?
>
> Definitely you should use bind9, the bind package is deprecated.  It has
> already been removed from testing and unstable, will not be part of the
> next Debian release and has an outstanding security bug¹.
>
> Sven
>
>
> ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442910

Sven,

Thanks for that quick response!
Probably saved me a ton of grief!! :-)

MANY THANKS!!
Dennis

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