Platform and Version

This book covers both BIND 8 and 9 name servers. The latest versions of these name servers as of this book's publication were 8.3.3 and 9.2.1. Thanks to the availability of early snapshots of BIND 9.3.0, I've been able to include a few peeks at its features.

When a feature I've described is only available in a particular version of BIND, I've tried to note that in the recipe. In general, however, I'd recommend running the latest released version of BIND 8 or 9.

I run my name servers on FreeBSD (currently the 4.5 release), so many of the examples are drawn from that operating system.