Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 12:06:26 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: brandon@roguetrader.com (Brandon Gillespie) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading to a safe BIND? Message-ID: <199707181706.MAA11574@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970718100336.29172A-100000@roguetrader.com> from Brandon Gillespie at "Jul 18, 97 10:05:53 am"
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In a previous message, Brandon Gillespie said: > My primary DNS is running FreeBSD 2.2-970205-GAMMA. In due time I will be > upgrading to 2.2.2, although I may just wait for 3.0 *shrug*. > > In the mean time, I would like to fix my BIND server. There is no port > for it (I guess since its in the distribution).. so which bind do I want? > bind-4 or bind-8? And if I get bind-8, will my current configurations > work? What differs between the bind distributed with FreeBSD and the bind > at isc.org? Bind as distributed in FreeBSD is 4.9.x. And it works fine. Of course, there are security bugs. I haven't tried compiling a newer version of 4.9.x lately. I had some trouble earlier (2.1.[5-7]). 4.9.x distributions are written to be platform specific. Ie. it wants to change libraries. the 8.x distribution does not do this. I did compile bind-8 on 2.2.1 and it seemed to run fine as a secondary. I didn't try it as a primary, though there should be no difference. It does use a different config file than bind-4. named.conf instead of named.boot, I think. But there is a little script (perl?) that comes with the distribution to convert it. There are some neat things in bind-8. You might want to play with it. I tried compiling it on 2.1.7, but it failed, due to a problem in a system header file that wasn't Posix compliant in 2.1.7 but was fixed in 2.2.x. -- "I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. --Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams, making excuses over his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal, 1987
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