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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."

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  1. First Post? by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Maybe not.

    On the topic however: Anybody know of a Windoze version of BIND out there I can use for schools? I'm looking into a controled DNS server solution for protection of kids on a DSL line at a Catholic School

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