IPv6 Network - Installing BIND

Different versions of BIND are available from the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC, formerly Internet Software Consortium) at http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/. For full IPv6 support, including IPv6 transport (answering queries received over IPv6), you should choose one of the 9.x versions; 9.2.x for bitlabel and A6 support. However, all the latest releases of currently maintained versions (including 4.9.x) support AAAA records, as do all other major DNS server implementations.

A binary distribution of BIND is available for Windows, which runs on Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003. This distribution doesn’t support IPv6 transport yet. If you want to install BIND on a Windows machine anyway, read the readme1st.txt document carefully. Obviously, the locations of the files discussed below will be different, but otherwise, BIND under Windows is pretty much the same as BIND under a UNIX-like operating system.

Should you wish to install a different version of BIND than the one that came with your Linux or FreeBSD system,4 just download the source and go through the customary ./configure, make, make install sequence per the instructions in the README file. Execute the configure script with the argument -h to list available options. Getting BIND to compile under MacOS requires advanced UNIX hacking skills: BIND doesn’t get along very well with the changes that Apple made to the UNIX/FreeBSD system core.

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