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  • 1.  Equivalence between NAMED and BIND

    Posted Tue October 30, 2007 10:45 AM

    Originally posted by: Yanuly


    Hi,
    I would like know how the versioning for NAMED is related to BIND's releases. For example, I have AIX 5.3 ML 06 which includes NAMED 8.3.3, I then applied IFIX IZ02219_06. The version hasn't changed (8.3.3 + patch, it says) and a security scan -using Retina- advices at least BIND 9.2.
    On the other hand ISC recommends BIND 9.4++... Does IBM develops fixes for NAMED fast enought to catch with ISC or would it be "better" to make a full switch to BIND?
    Thanks
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  • 2.  Re: Equivalence between NAMED and BIND

    Posted Wed October 31, 2007 01:34 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    NAMED and BIND are exactly and necessarily equivalent. named is the name of the daemon that runs and bind is the acronym (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) for the software package. IBM doesn't develop fixes for bind, or for any other open source software they distribute (eg. Perl), they just pass along whatever the maintainers release (hopefully after testing it). Given that you should go with whatever release of bind meets your needs. If you want something newer than what comes with AIX then go ahead and compile it yourself. The support is the same either way.

    HTH

    Jim Lane
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