Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:56:03 -0700 From: Bohdan Tashchuk <tashchuk@easystreet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: help, I can't upgrade BIND Message-ID: <37F1A9F3.BD88E51F@easystreet.com>
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Hi all, I'm new to FreeBSD, though I've used/administered other Unixes previously. I bought The Complete FreeBSD book and installed FreeBSD 3.2 which comes with it. Things went well. This is for my router/firewall/DNS server for my DSL connection. I set up BIND on FreeBSD to act as a cacheing DNS server. However, I noticed that sometimes my DNS queries from my internal computer were acting flakey. I noticed that quite often BIND on FreeBSD would fail to respond to domain queries from my internal computer. BIND would usually respond 5 seconds later when the sender timed out and retransmitted. I determined that BIND 8.1.2 ships with FreeBSD 3.2, and from the ports stuff on the web I determined that BIND 8.2.1 is the current version. I decided to upgrade, since this behavior could well be a BIND bug. I used the ports mechanism to get BIND 8.2.1 and then did make make install I expected this to update various binaries, such as named. However, it didn't. I tracked this down to the fact that named was installed as part of FreeBSD 3.2 into /usr/sbin/named However, the named in the port was installed into /usr/local/sbin/named The default root search path finds the old named, rather than the new one. I studied the Makefile and found a post-install option. But I can't figure out quite what that does. I tried it anyway, but it doesn't overwrite the old named. My problem is that BIND is a large collection of executables and documentation. I could go in and manually delete the old named, for example, but how could I be sure I deleted all of the old stuff. For example, if I didn't find all the old DOC I would be reading obsolete man pages (assuming I have the same path problems for DOC as for the binaries). I guess my question is simple: How do I update BIND to the latest version and get rid of all the old stuff installed by FreeBSD 3.2 release? Thanks in advance for your help. Bohdan Tashchuk tashchuk@easystreet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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