From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 23 6:39:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97C114BF4 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 06:39:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00783; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:38:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA13087; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:38:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991123093720.01d02aa0@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:37:20 -0500 To: lambert@troi.csw.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: BIND 8.2.2P5 Upgrade Instructions? In-Reply-To: <199911230444.WAA18061@csw.csw.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:55 PM 11/22/99 -0600, lambert@troi.csw.net wrote: >In , on >11/22/99 > at 07:29 PM, "Chris D. Faulhaber" said: > >>On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Darren Foo wrote: > >>> Are there instructions somewhere on how to upgrade from 8.x.x to the >>> latest bind? I don't want to break my current DNS server. >>> >>> > >>cd /usr/ports/net/bind8 && make install >>echo 'named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"' >> /etc/rc.conf > >>(you may have to link /etc/namedb/named.conf -> /etc/named.conf) > >Before you do a production machine, make sure you don't have names that >are both CNAMEs and MX records. It will now refuse the domain file and >that domain could be down until you figure it out. > >I ran 8.2.2P5 against the same zone files on a seperate machine first. I >had a lot of fixing to do. The previous admin was MX happy and they had >never turned up as a problem before. > From the default named.conf, I think the option below will change it to the previous behaviour. multiple-cnames no; // if yes, then a name my have more // than one CNAME RR. This use // is non-standard and is not // recommended, but it is available // because previous releases supported // it and it was used by large sites // for load balancing. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message