BIND 4.9 has been released

[Of course you can also find bind 4.9 and the Operations guide on
ftp.ripe.net:tools/dns     -- Marten]

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Seen in the news in comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:

From: vixie at 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
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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 at pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie         they're the same thing, anyway.  Find
<paul at 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

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