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Precompiled and source RPM packages for BIND 9.4.3-P1 can be downloaded from:
http://support.menandmice.com/download/bind/linux/redhat/9.4.3-P1/

These are designed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which means they should also work on CentOS 5 and other direct clones, and may work on one or more versions of Fedora. Binary versions are available for i686 and x86_64. If you need a version for a different hardware platform, build the SRPM on your chosen platform.

Building the SRPM produces a collection of 7 binary RPM's. You will want to install at least the base bind package and bind-libs. You may also want bind-utils. You may need one or more of the other binary packages if the rpm command complains that older versions depend on a specific version of the packages you're trying to upgrade.

To upgrade any given package:

rpm -U package.rpm

You can give multiple packages on the command line, which can be used to resolve circular dependencies.

Binary packages are available for i686 and x86_64. The reason for the x86_64 version is, not all installations have the 32-bit compatibility libraries installed. If you have the needed 32-bit libraries on your 64-bit version of Linux, it is expected that the 32-bit versions will perform at least as well as the 64-bit versions.

The SRPM is based on the stock Red Hat SRPM for BIND. We have upgraded the base source code to BIND 9.4.3-P1, removed nearly all of the patches, and disabled DLZ support. We have left in the following two patches:

- A patch to move the default PID file from /var/run to /var/run/named
- A patch to make the 64-bit openssl libraries work in the location used by Red Hat

All other patches, including the patch that provided D-Bus support for zones of type forward, have been removed; most of them are simply backports of fixes already present in the stock source code of BIND 9.4.3-P1.

Important:
This packages are offered as-is, with no warranty expressed or implied.