Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:29:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] BIND 8 is EOL as of 27 August 2008 (fwd) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.0.999.0708271441460.46856@qbhto.arg>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 For all those currently using BIND 8, please be aware of the notice below from ISC. Given that we have moved to BIND 9 for all of our releases from 5.x on (and BIND 9.4.x in 7-soon-to-be-release), and given that FreeBSD 4 was the last branch to have BIND 8, and itself is now EOL, the time has come to say good-bye to BIND 8. I will be marking the bind8 (BIND 8.3.7) port FORBIDDEN since it contains the predictable query ID bug. I will also update the bind84 (currently BIND 8.4.7) port to 8.4.7-P1, and mark that port DEPRECATED with an EXPIRATION_DATE 3 months in the future. Users who have heavily loaded BIND 8 installations and are concerned about performance should seriously consider testing FreeBSD 7 and BIND 9.4. That combination (which includes working threads) has demonstrated excellent performance, especially on SMP systems. Please see http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/bind-resperf.png (a copy of work done by Kris Kenneway) to get an idea of the improvements in performance. The URL listed below has some excellent resources regarding how to ease the transition from BIND 8 to 9. The named-checkconf and named-checkzone utilities in BIND 9 will also go a long way towards helping you shake out the bugs well in advance of putting a new BIND 9 server on line. For users with questions not answered by the migration guides at the URL below I suggest posting to the bind-users@isc.org mailing list. Regards, Doug - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ISC Customer Support <sue_graves@isc.org> To: bind-announce@isc.org Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:55:05 -0700 Subject: BIND 8 is EOL as of 27 August 2008 Due to the continuing level of effort required to support BIND 8, ISC has decided to change the status of BIND 8 to 'end of life'. ISC strongly encourages users who depend on BIND 8 to migrate to BIND 9 as soon as possible. It's never easy to retire a product. The security issues of BIND 8 are many, and 7 years after the release of BIND 9, ISC must devote our efforts to maintaining and enhancing the current version. BIND 9 was always intended as a replacement for BIND 8, thus there are no more BIND 8 releases planned beyond 8.4.7-P1, being released today. Please see ISC's website at http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/bind8-eol.php for additional information and migration tools. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG01BNyIakK9Wy8PsRAxgmAJ40hMNfb13iPprO3zfgu1iH2QlSygCgnKMl eTcm9s0tZpO2OGw3/eI6uv8= =eDVx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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