Bind (again)

  > On  Wed, 21 Dec 1994 11:55:15 +0000 (WET) Denis Hickey said:
  > 
  > >Mike,
  > >	Sorry to bother you with this, but I can only locate 4.9-2 at
  > >gatekeeper,either in the pub/BSD/bind/4.9 directory or in pub/misc/vixie.
  > >Do you know of another location.
  > >
  > 
  > Sorry about that, Denis.  The RIPE archive has documentation
  > for 4.9.3.  I'll copy this to the DNS working group and ask
  > the experts to say where BIND 4.9.3 can be found; thank you,
  > RIPE folk.
4.9.3 is still under beta test - though it is hoped to see the final
release version this week!  the current version is beta 14.

I have not yet updated my "state of BIND versions" note to track
the rapidly changing beta versions of the last few weeks;
until the 4.9.3 version is released, information from my note probably
is still pretty good advice for sites that do not want to get involved
in testing of the new BIND version.  The stuff still can be found at

	ftp://ftp.DIGI.DE/DNS/src/bind/IMPORTANT-NOTE

For those interested in the most current beta find Paul Vixie's
announcement attached below.

Cheers,
  Ruediger


Ruediger Volk
Universitaet Dortmund, Informatik IRB
D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

E-Mail: rv at Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE
Phone:  +49 231 755 4760                 Fax:  +49 231 755 2386

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To: bind at uunet.uu.net
Subject: BIND 4.9.3 BETA14 ready for public testing
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 18:24:53 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul at vix.com>

We did Beta13 privately (on bind-workers at vix.com) and came up with a few minor
nits which are fixed in this cut.  Beta14 will be virtually indistinguishable
from 4.9.3-Rel (which I've been calling "Final") unless someone finds a bug
which is (a) serious and (b) not related to portability.

	FTP Server:	ftp.vix.com
	Path:		/pri/vixie/bind-4.9.3-BETA14.tar.gz
	Size:		1452870 bytes
	BSD checksum:	35059 1419
	POSIX checksum:	1405905366 1452870
	MD5 checksum:	c8f963da19aa5725d377156fbab0edd0

And the **NEW** disclaimer for the odd way my network and ftp servers work:

	``Note that my supply of sympathy for those of you who won't "ftp" me
	because you can't "ping" me, or won't "get" the files because you
	cannot "ls" them, or can't "get" the file you've been told about
	because you only provided one argument to "get" and have no /pri
	directory on your local host, has just about run out.  Just Do It.''