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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ve noticed that the bind9 packages in most linux distros (debian, Ubuntu, red hat etc.) seem to be of the 9.8.4 vintage (plus or minus a subversion or 2). In many cases these
can support RPZ but they obviously don’t have all the latest fixes to handle multiple RPZ performance hits and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">They do however seem to generally work if you give them one feed and don’t try the more recent RPZ things (e.g. rpz-client-IP , rpz-drop and rpz-TCP-only).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Is this considered acceptable or should RPZ clients use a more recent bind version (e.g. 9.9.4)?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If the latter is there a document anyone can point me to that explains how a minimally cluefull linux sysadmin goes about getting 9.9.4 running on his machine. My experience
is that the packagers tend to help a lot with all the install busywork (creating the start/stop scripts, simple named.conf, rndc etc.) that is exceptionally easy to get wrong and which varies slightly by distro. I’d greatly prefer NOT to have to write this
myself but I may do so if there really aren’t any good references.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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