BIND 9.3 Released With Commercial Support

darthcamaro writes "Time for net admins to update BIND: version 9.3 has been released. internetnews.com has a story on it where they talk with Paul Vixie, the founder of BIND's keeper ISC. In it he details why after so many years BIND has finally decided to offer commercial support. 'Many of the companies who use our software free of charge have told us that their corporate risk management strategy requires them to have a bona fide support channel for all of their critical operations,' Vixie said. 'In other words we were told that having the best software wasn't good enough, and giving it away for free wasn't good enough, we also had to ensure that commercial support was available or they could be forced to switch to software they didn't like as well just to get support.' The full press release on the BIND 9.3 release is also available."

Comments

Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been waiting forever for them to get this resolved.

BlIND?

[chipster]

Either I am BlIND, or the only release of 9.3 available is 9.3.0beta2.

In technical terms...

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

"About every year or so they declare it complete, and then implementation begins and we discover that it's actually not complete," Vixie told

Given what Paul Vixie is famous for, I'd say the lines are:

0 0 1 1 * /bin/sh -c "echo it's complete"
5 0 1 1 * /bin/sh -c "echo nevermind..."

Todo

[T-Ranger]

1. Do a business name search on "BIND Support International".
2. Register it
3. Ditto for good domain name
4. Get letterhead printed
5. Randomly invoice big companies
6. ??
7. Profit!

You know what?

[Neil Blender]

I really dig them root name servers.

Re:Wait till the next exploit,,,

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I'm sorry, but who even uses BIND anymore? an article like that on 66.35.250.150 is truly News for Nerds...