From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 12:14:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79BEC37B42C for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 83F5216B13 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 21:31:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A5F4AF3500E4; Fri, 18 May 2001 21:20:20 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010518211152.027dad30@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:16:01 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: Any Good reason to go to BIND 9? In-Reply-To: <200105181903.MAA22517@akira.lanfear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 > Is there no good reason to upgrade? nothing overwhelming to upgrade for. the database "veiw" is great, but if you donīt use it... >are there good reasons NOT to? there are some items in BIND8 that arenīt in BIND9. Again, no big deal. >are all my configuration files written for 8.2.x not going to work in >bind 9? If your zone files are ok under 8.2.3, then they will be ok under 9.1.2. zone file syntax checking is more rigorous in BIND9. named.conf change a little. again, no big deal. itīs pretty much a wash. DL BIND9 source pkg and read the migration notes and judge for yourself. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.3 "NT3" for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message