From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 15 13:04:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA21464 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (mail-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21440 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from studded@san.rr.com) Received: (from studded@localhost) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA19802; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710152003.NAA19802@mail.san.rr.com> From: "Studded" To: "Nate Williams" Cc: "FreeBSD-ISP@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 15 Oct 97 13:03:05 -0700 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installing BIND 4.9.6 and 8.1.1 in FreeBSD 2.2.x (update) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:53:11 -0600 (MDT), Nate Williams wrote: >[ Shortened the Cc list to -isp ] > >> Particularly, there are some changes that have to be made to get 8.1.1 >> installed in the 2.1.x branch of FreeBSD that were recently detailed >> on both the FreeBSD and bind-users lists, so I won't belabour that. > >Umm, I've been watching the FreeBSD lists, and I don't remember any >'changes' or even discussions on how to get Bind on 2.1.x, and I'm >interested in doing it, but have waited since I simply don't have time >to figure it out myself. Sorry.. I should probably have edited that a bit more. The discussion did happen on -isp a while back, so check the archives for that list at http://www.freebsd.org/search.html. >> My advice to anyone using 2.1.x is to upgrade to 2.2.5 when it's >> available, then install BIND 8.1.1, although I realize that's not >> possible for some people. > >For me it's not possible, due to both time and driver constraints. I'm interested in knowing what kind of constraint this is? >> Installing 4.9.6 (only needed in a pre 2.2.5 system): > >Will this work for 2.1.x then, or only 2.2.x (pre 2.2.5) systems? I've never tried it. It might work since 4.9.6 does things less differently than 8.1.1 does, all I can say is give it a try. :-/ Please let me know how it goes, and I'll update the file. Good luck, Doug *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,168 clients and still growing. :-) *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD)