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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
cc: Michael Beckmann <beckmann@nacamar.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: BIND 8.1
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We're running bind 8.1 on releng_2_2 without too many problems.  I believe
that there is a known memory leak problem that will be fixed in 8.1.1.  It
should be imported into -current, but unlike other upgrades (eg. sendmail)
this one requires a complete conversion of your configuration files
(i.e.named.boot to named.conf) which has a different file format.
Conversion can be trivial or more involved depending on your
configuration.  I also found that 8.1 was a little more picky about the
zone files; I had to clean up something involving comments or whitespace
in my SOA records but I can't remember what it was now :) 

8.1.1. is being actively developed and I expect that a release is imminent
by the end of the month.

For people who want to use the latest/greatest bind/dhcpd/sendmail before
they're imported into freebsd, I'd recommend maintaining your own separate
CVS tree with these utilities, and installing them into a private 
bin/sbin/etc directory tree.  I've been doing that for a while now and it
frees me to track other changes in freebsd while relying on private copies
of these critical programs.  

-Chris

On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Michael Beckmann wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I wish to ask if anyone is working actively on porting BIND 8.1 to FreeBSD,
> > or if anyone intends to do that in the near future. If yes, I would like to
> > know who that is and around which time he/she intends to complete it.
> > If noone is working on this, a colleague of mine is thinking about doing
> > that job. He had already ported the most recent BIND 4.9.4 to FreeBSD 2.1.5
> > last year, and we had been running his port on our main nameserver for
> > about 8 months. If there is any interest on the FreeBSD side, we could do
> > the BIND 8.1 port in a proper way so that it can be submitted to the
> > FreeBSD source tree. Hints on how to do this correctly are appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Michael Beckmann
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>   Compiling BIND on FreeBSD is almost trivial.
> 
>   8.1 should be imported into current, but that isn't so trivial, but that
> is primarily a cvs problem, not a porting problem.
> 
> Tom
>