Re: RHEL5 BIND in PROD

2011-03-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Warren Kumari wrote: After having tried to use the distribution supplied packages (for multiple distributions) my opinion is that building from source is the right answer for BIND. The distributions lag more than I'm comfortable with, and BIND builds cleanly from source w

Re: RHEL5 BIND in PROD

2011-03-15 Thread Lars Hecking
fakessh @ writes: > I recompile the source rpm fedora core 14 bind 9.7.3 to EL4 and EL5 > with koji see my blog for explanations > > http://fakessh.eu/2011/03/10/bind-9-7-3-sur-centos-5-5-depuis-rpm-source-fecora-14/ Yep, that works fine, and even on RHEL3. _

Re: RHEL5 BIND in PROD

2011-03-15 Thread fakessh @
I recompile the source rpm fedora core 14 bind 9.7.3 to EL4 and EL5 with koji see my blog for explanations http://fakessh.eu/2011/03/10/bind-9-7-3-sur-centos-5-5-depuis-rpm-source-fecora-14/ Le mardi 15 mars 2011 à 09:45 -0400, Mike Diggins a écrit : > I'm about to transition my name servers fr

Re: RHEL5 BIND in PROD

2011-03-15 Thread Warren Kumari
So, how many servers are you talking about? After having tried to use the distribution supplied packages (for multiple distributions) my opinion is that building from source is the right answer for BIND. The distributions lag more than I'm comfortable with, and BIND builds cleanly from source w

RE: RHEL5 BIND in PROD

2011-03-15 Thread Lightner, Jeff
If these are new servers that are only for BIND I'd suggest going with RHEL6 rather than 5.6 - RHEL releases have very long life cycle. When I get a spare moment I intend to update our servers to RHEL6. We use the RHEL5 BIND package for the reasons you give. However, the way RedHat does things

RE: RHEL5 BIND in PROD

2011-03-15 Thread Baird, Josh
For new deployments, I would likely choose RHEL6 over RHEL5; unless you have a compelling reason to run RHEL5. RHEL6 includes BIND 9.7.0. You mention that you would like to keep your DNS boxes "appliance" like. If this is the case, rolling out source code and compiling on each box may not be the