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BIND 8.2.3 is in Release Candidate 2 Beta and could be available by the end April 2000. I will update this site to 8.2.3.

To: bind-announce@isc.org
Subject: BIND 8.2.3 T4B (RC2) is available for public testing
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:22:58 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie < vixie@mibh.net>

This is a release candidate. (It is running on F.ROOT-SERVERS.ORG.)

Highlights vs. BIND 8.2.3-T3B:

    fixed wierd IXFR-related bug

Highlights vs. BIND 8.2.3-T2B:

    forwarders are now used in order by measured RTT
    TSIG AXFR was completely broken in DiG
    "ndc reconfig -noexpired"

Highlights vs. BIND 8.2.3-T2B:

    forwarders are now used in order by measured RTT
    TSIG AXFR was completely broken in DiG
    "ndc reconfig -noexpired"

Highlights vs. BIND 8.2.2-P5:

    Bug fixes
    Performance
    Portability
    Documentation
    Compliance

    zones signed by the BIND 9 signer failed to load.
    another almost-complete rewrite of IXFR.
    acl "none" now fails to match but doesn't end search.
    res_nsend() almost completely readable now.
    various small win/nt improvements.

the distribution files are:

ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-src.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-doc.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-contrib.tar.gz

the pgp signature files are:

ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-src.tar.gz.asc
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-doc.tar.gz.asc
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-contrib.tar.gz.asc
3 MAY 2000: BIND8NT gets a link on DNS Resources Directory.
28 APR 2000: We have been unable to compile all of the modules of RC2 for NT and have reported the bug to ISC. ISC is looking into it. They are also looking BIND on Win 2000.
28 APR 2000: The International Software Consortium has listed BIND8NT on their site: "BIND 8 for NT 4 from Len Conrad"
BIND 9 is a total re-write and has been in Beta for several months. ISC is shooting for release for near 1 July 2000.
23 SEP 2000: From the BIND-users@ISC.org mailing list:

Subject: Re: Bind 9.0.0 on Windows platforms..
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:20:37 +1100
Sender: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com
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Time to squash this rumour.

The intention is still to release BIND 8.2.3. There will be
no new development work in BIND 8.2.x however. Bug reports
are still accepted for BIND 8.2.x.

BIND 9.0 requires a working pthreads implementation. There
are plans to allow BIND 9 to be built without pthreads in
BIND 9.1 or BIND 9.2, such a change is considered a feature
change and will not be seen in BIND 9.0.

Mark
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc
. 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:26:36 -0700
To: "Hans K. Rosbach" < hk@innoweb.no>, < bind-users@isc.org>
From: "David R. Conrad" < david.conrad@nominum.com>
Subject: Re: Bind 9.0.0 on Windows platforms..
Sender: bind-users-bounce@isc.org
Errors-To: bind-users-bounce@isc.org
Hi,

BIND version 9 was designed such that porting to win32 would be much easier
than BINDv8 was. We didn't (and don't) have the resources to do an win32
port ourselves at this point. We would like to, however. Anybody want a
job? :-)
Rgds,
-drc
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:28:57 -0700
To: Danny Mayer < mayer@gis.net>, Len Conrad < lconrad@Go2France.com>,< bind-users@isc.org> From: "David R. Conrad" < david.conrad@nominum.com>
Subject: Re: Bind 9.0.0 on Windows platforms..

Hi,

BTW, since 9.0.0 has been released, does that mean that 8.2.3 is now dead?

No. I suspect we'll need to maintain and develop both BINDv8 and BINDv9 for a while yet.

Rgds,
-drc