Seen in the news in comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains: From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Subject: BIND 4.9 has been released Date: 17 May 93 19:42:21 GMT Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab Lines: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com [ this was posted on the bind and namedroppers mailing lists, now here. --vix ] After several years of development and at least one year of testing, BIND 4.9 has finally exited Beta testing and is ready to rock and roll. You can get it from gatekeeper.dec.com via anonymous FTP as /pub/BSD/bind/4.9/4.9.930517.tar.Z (the Bind Operations Guide, substantially improved, is in the same directory, called BOG.psf). This BIND has been the name server running on DECWRL.DEC.COM, UUNET.UU.NET, EUNET.EU.NET, MUNNARI.OZ.AU, and hundreds of other large and small servers, for at least six months. We consider it "stable". Improvements over 4.8.3 are too numerous to list. If you have had any kind of trouble with 4.8.3 (and if you use it, you've had trouble with it, though you may not know this), you should upgrade to 4.9. Operating system vendors are encouraged to include this version of BIND as soon as their release schedules permit; the NSFnet backbone will thank you for it, as will your customers. This BIND includes "dig" (from USC/ISI) and "host" (from Rutgers), as well as a large collection of contributed scripts, utilities, and documentation. The resolver has also been improved. This BIND is known to compile and run on ULTRIX/RISC 4.2-4.3, SunOS 4.1.x, BSD/386 1.0, NeXTstep 3.0, UMIPS/V, HP-UX 8.x, Alpha AXP OSF/1 1.2, and more. This BIND was funded by Digital Equipment Corporation and is hereby released into full public use, subject to the same restrictions as the U C Berkeley Networking 2 ("net2") release. There is a DIGITAL ("DEC") Copyright in each file but it's just noise for the lawyers -- no practical restrictions have been added other than DIGITAL's disclaimer of liability. I (Paul Vixie) was the principle contributor to this release, as well as code librarian and test/release coordinator. However, my efforts would have been wasted without the assistance and participation of the alpha test list, to whom special thanks are given in the new Bind Operations Guide ("BOG"). -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist; <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me PS (from Francis Dupont): A copy of it and diffs for NSAP support are available in: nic.switch.ch:/software/sources/network/bind/bind.4.9.930517.tar.Z nic.switch.ch:/software/sources/network/bind/bind.4.9-nsap-diffs