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  3. July 2005

Re: Migrate i5 DNS to BIND 8



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.

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