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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:39:09 +1030

Re: uh oh! -- BIND's no good again - warning, warning

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:34:06AM +1030, Mark Newton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:27:35AM +1030, Matthew Geddes wrote:
> 
>  > Mark Newton wrote:
>  > > Keep in mind that BIND 9 is still under development, and is not recommended
>  > > for production use.  You should consider it to be "beta" software.
>  > 
>  > Yet, isg.org recommend using over 8.x (check the isc link Alan posted
>  > earlier).
> 
> While that statement is true, those who actually use BIND still recommend
> 8.x over 9.x :-)

Well, this is what I saw on this web page:
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html

--------------------------------------------------------
Upgrading to BIND version 9.1 is strongly recommended. 
If that is not possible for your site, upgrading at least to
BIND version 8.2.3 is imperative. 
-------------------------------------------------------

That's the reason I chose 9.1.
In fact, I think anyone else but me _should_ go for 9.1.
And I will use it myself when I build my new 
firewall/server machine.
In the meantime, I've wiped 9.1 and used 8.2.3 instead.

By the way, does anyone have any comment on the suitability
of using an old laptop as a 24 hour machine?
Last time I was overseas, my 24-hour machine was down for
3 days due to a power cut (10-13 January 2001).
I had to spend an hour on the phone with a non-comp-scientist
to get my home machines through the fsck process
and I lost 2 months of log files.

My choices for better reliability are:

1.	UPS unit.
2.	Laptop with, say, 2.5 hours battery life.
3.	Collocation with someone who's got better electricity.

Any hints on the bext way to go?

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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