Concise Guide to DNS and BIND, The

The Goals of BIND 9

BIND 9 is a major revision of BIND and will, not too long after it's finished (which is expected sometime in the fall of 2000), be the recommended version of BIND.

BIND 9 addresses some major problems in BIND 8. It became obvious that BIND 8 was not up to the demands of the future. ISC has, on behalf of the Internet community in general, and some named sponsors specifically, undertaken a major rewrite of BIND.

Available when I write this, July 2000, is BIND 9.0.0rc1, the first release candidate release of the BIND 9 code, containing the final set of features slated for BIND 9.0.0. BIND 9 will, when it is released, be available from ftp.isc.org. Please see Chapter 15, "Compiling and Maintaining BIND," for more information ...