Date: Sat, 26 Jul 97 15:00:01 -0800 From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: "FreeBSD ISP FreeBSD-ISP@freebsd.org" <FreeBSD.ISP.FreeBSD-ISP@freebsd.org>, "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "BIND Users List" <bind-users@vix.com>, "bind-bugs@vix.com" <bind-bugs@vix.com> Subject: Installing BIND 4.9.6 or 8.1.1 in FreeBSD 2.2.1 Message-ID: <199707262200.PAA17846@mail.san.rr.com>
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I can still remember the frustration of people telling me "just install it" when I was new to system administration, so I thought I'd put together some instructions for installing the newest versions of BIND since the question has come up a few times now. Also, someone was talking about putting together a port, so hopefully this will save them some time. The only changes I have had to make for either version of BIND are in regards to the man pages, so this is actually pretty simple. However I am not a programmer, so it's possible that there are changes that do have to be made. I doubt this is the case however, since all of the binaries and libs build and work as advertised. I only have 2.2.1 systems to work with, so there may be a few details different if you're using something else. 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. My advice to anyone using 2.1.x is to upgrade to 2.2.x, and install BIND 8.1.1, although I realize that's not possible for some people. In fact, I myself installed BIND 4.9.6 on a FreeBSD 2.2.1 system for a couple reasons, so you do what works for you. :) My hope is that someone from the FreeBSD team will put together all the changes that have to be made, and send them to the bind folks so that we'll have a true port. At minimum, I would like to request that the ISC include the following comments in the top level Makefile for 4.9.6: # FreeBSD 2.2.1 - These changes install the man pages in FreeBSD # format. You will also want to go into /usr/share/man/man<1,3,5,7,8> # and gzip -f the new man pages to replace the old ones. For instance, in # /usr/share/man/man1 you would execute gzip -f *.1 # These defaults should work with other FreeBSD distributions, but have # only been tested on FreeBSD 2.2.1. #CATEXT = $$$$N #MANROFF = cat #MANDIR = man It would also be nice if there were a way to change the group and owner of the pages as below for consistency, but having them owned by root doesn't seem to hurt anything. Installing 4.9.6: 1. cd to /usr/src/contrib/bind 2. rm -r * 3. ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/4.9.6/bind-4.9.6-REL.tar.gz The 4.9.6 release is all in one package. 4. tar -zxvf *.gz 5. Change the values for CATEXT, MANROFF and MANDIR as indicated above in the top level Makefile. 6. make clean 7. make 8. make install 9. Go to /usr/share/man and gzip the new man pages in man1, man3, man5, man7 and man8 as indicated above. 10. Reboot, and you're done. :) For the 8.1.1 distribution, the following changes are needed to doc/man/Makefile. It would be nice if there were some kind of system-specific comments in this file, since finding the right combination based on the comments in there took a lot of trial and error. :) The same gzip process is needed as above, so the ISC people could duplicate those comments if they really wanted to. MANDIR = man CATEXT = $$N MAN_OWNER = -o bin MAN_GROUP = -g bin MANROFF = cat Installing 8.1.1: 1. cd to /usr/src/contrib/bind 2. rm -r * 3. ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1.1 This distribution is in 3 files. You want bind-doc.tar.gz and bind-src.tar.gz for sure. The contrib stuff was still almost all for 4.9.6 when I installed 8.1, and I haven't had a chance to look at the contrib stuff for 8.1.1 yet, so I will leave this as an exercise for the reader. :) 4. tar -zxvf *.gz 5. First go into the src directory. All I had to do there was make, then make install and I was in business. 6. Now go into bind/doc/man, and make the changes to the Makefile there as indicated above. 7. make clean 8. make 9. make install 10. Go to /usr/share/man and gzip the new man pages as indicated above. 11. If this is the first time installing 8.1x, use named-bootconf.pl in /usr/src/contrib/bind/src/bin/named to convert your /etc/named.boot file to named.conf. 12. Reboot, and you're done. :) If you're installing 8.1.1 on a system that has never had a named running on it, you will want to go to /etc/namedb and run the make-localhost script before you run the named.boot conversion script that comes with BIND. That should set up your localhost domain for you, which is basically the only thing you need to run a resolver-only setup. Any FreeBSD-specific questions should probably be directed to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. Other comments and suggestions are welcome of course. :) Good luck, Doug The man who fears nothing, loves nothing.
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