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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:46:37 +0000
From:      simond@irrelevant.org
To:        Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BIND and Win2k interaction
Message-ID:  <20001113144637.B37903@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <009301c04d7f$1c17c8c0$b8209fc0@marlowe>; from swb@grasslake.net on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:36:29AM -0600
References:  <009301c04d7f$1c17c8c0$b8209fc0@marlowe>

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:36:29AM -0600, Shawn Barnhart wrote:
> Is anyone running a STABLE with one of the 8.2.3-T5B or greater BINDs and
> any DNS interaction with Win2kSP1?
> 
> I've been trying to debug some interoperability problems with Win2k DNS
> (zone transfers not working, notifies ignored, etc).  I'm running a couple
> of different STABLEs (4.1 and 4.1.1), all of which have BIND 8.2.3-T5B and
> have been working happily with each other, but they won't play nice with
> Win2k.  The Win2K machines I have been using are not running ADS.
> 
> I asked over on the bind-users mailing list.  I got an answer initially of
> "this should work".  After further debugging on my end and discovering
> stranger interoperability problems I got another answer from the same person
> of "As you know, 8.2.3 is BETA software.." and the usual litany of
> not-running-BETA software.  It's not clear if it's known to be broken or
> what.
> 
> Since I don't exactly consider STABLE to be beta and it doesn't look
> particularly easy to override the included BIND, I'm wondering if someone
> else here has seen interaction problems with it.
> 
> I'm interested in general BIND/Win2k interaction tips, horror stories, etc,
> but I wouldn't be trying to integrate these two if I didn't have to, so
> "dump Win2k" comments should be sent to /dev/null.

I don't know about the rest, but if you don't want BIND to be built and
override any other version you're using, just set
NO_BIND=       true
in your /etc/make.conf

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org


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