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Date:      10 Dec 2002 19:09:02 -0600
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to upgrade bind8 to bind9?
Message-ID:  <877kehtl8x.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
In-Reply-To: <200212111138.02492.f3z@iprimus.com.au>
References:  <20021211003340.13406.qmail@web20004.mail.yahoo.com> <200212111138.02492.f3z@iprimus.com.au>

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At 2002-12-11T00:38:02Z, JacobRhoden <f3z@iprimus.com.au> writes:

> Anyway, when I found that make install did not work for me, I copied the
> binary manually. The old one can be found at /usr/sbin/named, I renamed it
> and copied the new one from inside the ports directory to its place. This
> may not be a very good idea, but it worked (:

Don't do that.  Your named will be overwritten the next time you upgrade
your system.  Follow another poster's instructions to set variables in
rc.conf to point to the bind9 named, and leave the old one alone.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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