I can see somebody running XP for some "legacy" software that doesn't run nicely on newer versions of Windows, but I would think it extremely risky to have such a machine connected to the Internet.
Maybe whoever runs BIND on XP should consider converting that machine to Linux, and running BIND on Linux? On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:30:43 +0000 Evan Hunt <e...@isc.org> wrote: > Greetings, > > For some time ISC has been providing three Windows builds for each > release of BIND 9: x64, win32, and windows XP. > > Windows XP is well past its end of life and is no longer receiving > security updates. I'd like to stop supporting it after the upcoming > maintenance release, but it's been pointed out to me that a > significant number of people -- many thousands -- are downloading the > XP version every time we put out a new release. > > This information surprised me. If you're one of those people, would > you mind responding, either on or off the list, to discuss it? Why > are you using XP to run a name server? Is it possible you're still > using the XP build out of inertia, but your OS would work equally > well with the win32 build? If you're really still running XP, do you > have a plan for transitioning to something newer? > > We want to support the needs of our users, but to do that we have to > understand those needs, so please let us know what yours are. Thanks, > > -- > Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org > Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe from this list > _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
