Getting BIND

BIND lives at the Internet Software Consortium. The latest release can always be found there.

The page for the latest BIND is right there in plain view. It points to the ISC ftp site for the sources. A script of the download follows:

Script started on Mon Oct 18 21:10:01 1999
> ftp ftp.isc.org
Connected to isrv4.pa.vix.com.
220 isrv4.pa.vix.com FTP server (Version wu-2.5.0(1) Wed Aug 25 16:05:38 PDT 1999) ready.
Name (ftp.isc.org:fraser1): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd isc/bind/src/8.2.1
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get bind-src.tar.gz
local: bind-src.tar.gz remote: bind-src.tar.gz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for bind-src.tar.gz (1136776 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
1136776 bytes received in 16.4 secs (68 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> quit
221-You have transferred 1136776 bytes in 1 files.
221-Total traffic for this session was 1137369 bytes in 1 transfers.
221-Thank you for using the FTP service on isrv4.pa.vix.com.
221 Goodbye.
> exit

Script done on Mon Oct 18 21:11:53 1999

BIND 8.2.1 has been sucessfully gotten.

Now, we must build it.