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BIND 8 End Of Life Announcement

ISC is announcing BIND 8 to be End of Life as of today, 27 August 2007.

ISC strongly encourages users who depend on BIND 8 to migrate to BIND 9 as soon as possible.

It’s never easy to retire a product. The security issues of BIND 8 are many, and 7 years after the release of BIND 9, ISC must devote our efforts to maintaining and enhancing the current version. BIND 9 was always intended as a replacement for BIND 8, thus there are no more BIND 8 releases planned beyond 8.4.7-P1, being released today.

Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> to freebsd-announ:

I will be marking the bind8 (BIND 8.3.7) port FORBIDDEN since it contains the predictable query ID bug. I will also update the bind84 (currently BIND 8.4.7) port to 8.4.7-P1, and mark that port DEPRECATED with an EXPIRATION_DATE 3 months in the future.

Целая эпоха кончилась.