From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 7:21: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C93E37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:21:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (pc1-cmbg1-4-cust43.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [62.253.133.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2202743FA7 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18g4sN-000JcA-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 15:20:43 +0000 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:20:43 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND 8/9 Message-ID: <20030204152042.GC3115@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *18g4sN-000JcA-00*C.Df/3kyTks* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:03:11AM -0500, Dan Delaney wrote: > Hello all. I have a few questions about BIND on FreeBSD. > > 1) Since BIND 8 comes in the base installation of FreeBSD (4.8 and 5), > why is there a BIND 8 port in the ports collection? Don't know, but I guess it's so you can install it with different options than the one in the base system. > > 2) Why doesn't FreeBSD 5 come with BIND 9 in the base installation > instead of BIND 8? Is there some problem with BIND 9 that I'm not aware > of? Don't know this either... > > 3) If I install BIND 9 from the ports collection, can I uninstall BIND > 8 off of my system? You shouldn't need to - the version form the ports gets installed in /usr/local/. All you need to do is define named_program in /etc/rc.conf, and the system will do the right thing. The amount of disk space you would save by removing named and all associated libs and docs is minimal. If you really want rid of it, you can remove it all, install the BIND9 port, and make sure not to build BIND8 next time you do a buildworld, by setting NO_BIND=true in /etc/make.conf. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message