Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:48:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Michael Beckmann <beckmann@nacamar.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND 8.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970610213134.15368A-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970610164124.20773B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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We're running bind 8.1 on releng_2_2 without too many problems. I believe that there is a known memory leak problem that will be fixed in 8.1.1. It should be imported into -current, but unlike other upgrades (eg. sendmail) this one requires a complete conversion of your configuration files (i.e.named.boot to named.conf) which has a different file format. Conversion can be trivial or more involved depending on your configuration. I also found that 8.1 was a little more picky about the zone files; I had to clean up something involving comments or whitespace in my SOA records but I can't remember what it was now :) 8.1.1. is being actively developed and I expect that a release is imminent by the end of the month. For people who want to use the latest/greatest bind/dhcpd/sendmail before they're imported into freebsd, I'd recommend maintaining your own separate CVS tree with these utilities, and installing them into a private bin/sbin/etc directory tree. I've been doing that for a while now and it frees me to track other changes in freebsd while relying on private copies of these critical programs. -Chris On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Michael Beckmann wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I wish to ask if anyone is working actively on porting BIND 8.1 to FreeBSD, > > or if anyone intends to do that in the near future. If yes, I would like to > > know who that is and around which time he/she intends to complete it. > > If noone is working on this, a colleague of mine is thinking about doing > > that job. He had already ported the most recent BIND 4.9.4 to FreeBSD 2.1.5 > > last year, and we had been running his port on our main nameserver for > > about 8 months. If there is any interest on the FreeBSD side, we could do > > the BIND 8.1 port in a proper way so that it can be submitted to the > > FreeBSD source tree. Hints on how to do this correctly are appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Michael Beckmann > > > > > > > > > > Compiling BIND on FreeBSD is almost trivial. > > 8.1 should be imported into current, but that isn't so trivial, but that > is primarily a cvs problem, not a porting problem. > > Tom >
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