BIND version in 10.20

[robin wells-meisner]

Hi,
Has anyone out there installed any BIND versions greater than 8.1.2 (PHNE_23277) on HP-UX 10.20?
I have been notified to upgrade this 10.20 box to support MS/ADS. This box is the secondary DNS server for our org. The primary DNS server is a Solaris box. Both are currently (way behind) at BIND 4.9.7.
If you did install a newer version, where did you find the source or compiled binaries?
Any other advice?
Thanks so much for your help!

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

You can get the source for BIND from http://www.isc.org

You'll probably need gcc in order to compile it. If you don't have it already you can download that from http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/

[Kevin Wright]

get the source from isc.org.
I have successfully downloaded bind 8.2.3, for the same reasons, ms/ad. a couple notes of caution, I could not get it to compile with gcc, I had to use the full ansi C compiler from hp.
and, bind from the isc includes it's own version of nslookup, which ONLY querries name servers, it does not use the nsswitch.conf file.

[Rick Garland]

BIND 4.9.7 on 10.20 is supported, higher versions are not supported but there are many BIND 8.x versions running successfully on 10.20 systems. To be HP supported for BIND above 4.9.7 you would need to go to 11.00.

[robin wells-meisner]

Thanks all for the replies. We are putting the W2000 server up tomorrow as our primary DNS. We will be re-visiting this in May in order to move DNS back to Solaris. We'll get to evaluate both it seems. I will be be keeping the UX 10.20 version the same and in April I may be moving the secondary box DNS services to a Red Hat server.

[Tim Malnati]

I saw your comment regarding making W2K your primary DNS machine and all sorts of hairs stood on end. I have yet to find anyone who has had anything positive to say about MS's version of DNS (unstable, process pig, unable to control load with other services/applications, etc)

With what you are contemplating, I would be much more inclined toward keeping DNS on unix/Linux instead. The best version of bind right now is 9.1.0 where it is muti-threaded. It's available already ported on Linux, I don't know about Solaris, and a variety of people have compiled it for both HPUX 10.20 and 11.0. A quick search of this forum will bring up a variety of related posts.

If you are concerned about administering bind on the unix side, I suggest you load WebMin (it's been ported to most unix flavors).