RE: Moving BIND from Solaris to Linux

2012-10-01 Thread Lightner, Jeff
The reason I did the full discussion is that many shops are moving from proprietary UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) or Windows to Linux solutions.If they are moving much infrastructure but just starting with BIND then he needs to consider what I wrote. Also I don't really agree that Ubuntu is th

Re: Moving BIND from Solaris to Linux

2012-10-01 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
> One idea would be to use RHEL but still download and compile your own BIND on > top of it. Yup, IIRC there are (S)RPM for latest bind versios posted on this list. > However, if the only thing on your RHEL server is BIND you have to wonder > why you're paying RedHat a subscription. Yeah. If

RE: Moving BIND from Solaris to Linux

2012-10-01 Thread Lightner, Jeff
We use RHEL mainly because that's our distro of choice for most of our applications. It is the most popular "commercial" distro is the one most 3rd party commercial applications (e.g. Oracle) support. (Of course SLES has a lot of support as well but not quite a much - others will tell you Ubu

Re: Moving BIND from Solaris to Linux

2012-10-01 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Graham Butler wrote: > We are currently looking at replacing our Solaris boxes with a flavour of > Linux to run BIND with a focus on Red Hat and Ubuntu. I am trying to collect > some evidence to which OS is being used to run BIND and why, before we make > a decision

Moving BIND from Solaris to Linux

2012-10-01 Thread Graham Butler
We are currently looking at replacing our Solaris boxes with a flavour of Linux to run BIND with a focus on Red Hat and Ubuntu. I am trying to collect some evidence to which OS is being used to run BIND and why, before we make a decision. Could you please respond by sending me, or the list, info