Getting BIND


The latest release of BIND can always be found at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/. The latest available "current" release is also announced on the Web page.

The src directory holds subdirectories for each recent version of BIND. Each directory in turn contains three .tar.gz files and their corresponding .asc files containing cryptographic PGP signatures. The signatures verify the origin and authenticity of the copy of BIND you get, so you can know that you got an unaltered, trustable version. It also holds a MD5 file with MD5 checksums you can use to verify that you got the files without any problems.

If you want to verify the files you got, you must get hold of the ISC PGP keys, which you can find at http://www.isc.org/ISC/pgpkey.html. You also need PGP software, but I will not get into that here. The MD5 file can be used to verify correct retrieval using the md5sum program. It is included in recent versions of GNUs textutils package, at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/textutils.

Be sure you get the whole directory of the latest version of BIND.



The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND
The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND
ISBN: 0789722739
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1999
Pages: 183

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