From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 25 15:50:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA18005 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:50:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from monk.via.net (monk.via.net [140.174.204.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA17997 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:50:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@via.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by monk.via.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) id PAA27977; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:39:48 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:39:48 -0800 From: Joe McGuckin Message-Id: <199711252339.PAA27977@monk.via.net> To: gordon@drogon.net Subject: Re: BIND 8.1.1 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Converting the zone files from 4.X format to 8.x format might not be a >trivial task for some people. True, there is a little perl script which >will do the bulk of the work, but for an ISP who acts as secondary for >1000's of their customers zones, they also have to make sure that they can >get the information in the right format from their customer! >8.1.1 compiles and installs out of the box on all FreeBSD's I've tried it >on and it seems to work well, so I'm sure it will happen, but not right >away... I wrote a perl script to convert the named.boot into the proper format for named.conf. No big deal. It took about 15 minutes.