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Date:      Thu, 30 May 2002 16:49:00 +0100
From:      Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bind9
Message-ID:  <20020530154900.GA3065@icarus.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020530154319.013563c0@192.96.48.11>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020530154319.013563c0@192.96.48.11>

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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:49:52PM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm about to install Bind9 from ports on my 4.5 Stable box. I haven't had 
> DNS setup on the machine before and have been using my ISP's DNS. I know 
> that Bind8 is installed by default and for me to run the latest version of 
> Bind9.2.1 do I just install over the existing ?
> 
> Any advice, url's to documentation, howto's would be appreciated.

There's really nothing to it.  BIND8, as part of the base system, lives in
/usr/sbin.  BIND9, installed from the ports, lives in /usr/local/sbin.  You
just need to make sure you explicitly tell rc to use /usr/local/sbin/named
(use the 'named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"' directive in /etc/rc.conf)

There are differences in the config for the two, but as you've never set up
BIND8, this won't matter.

At your next buildworld, you can put 

NO_BIND=       true    # do not build BIND

in your /etc/make.conf so you don't get BIND8 again.

HTH

Dan

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