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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:31:17 +0930

Re: BIND 8/9 Compatibility

Hmmmm...

> Fortunately, since I would expect both bind 8 and bind 9 resolver libraries
> to co-exist on the one system (but I have not checked the shared library
> names that are created), this should not be a big problem, and, as I stated
> above, I would expect a bind 8 resolver library to still be able to query a
> bind 9 implementation.

It looks like the resolver libraries are contained within glibc itself;
this is on my RedHat 6.2 system. Hence it looks like an installation of
BIND 9 should be reasonably safe as far as that is concerned. Personally
I'd wait until a stable version of any reputable distribution (SuSe,
RedHat) includes BIND 9 as its name server. By doing things like this,
you're unlikely to see too many problems and if you do there will be
lots of people with the same problem (and hence a higher chance of
having it fixed).

DSL

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