Re: Migrate i5 DNS to BIND 8

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Bind 8 is older than the hills.  Does IBM patch all the holes in it.
> I believe the world uses 9.2.

BIND 8.4.6 should be secure.  I agree that BIND 9 is a better choice, but 
we're pretty much at IBM's mercy, here. You either have to 
install/configure/support BIND manually without support from IBM, without 
their configuration wizard, without iSeries Nav help. -- or you have to 
comply with the version of BIND that IBM makes available for OS/400.

Personally, I do the really sensible thing -- I run my DNS on FreeBSD. Let 
the iSeries do what it's good at, database, RPG, other business logic.  I 
can set up an old Pentium 100 system running FreeBSD w/BIND 9, with 
complete support for the latest updates from ISC, and it'll both 
outperform DNS on the iSeries and will cost basically nothing.