From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 25 19:22:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA08802 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:22:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from milehigh.denver.net (milehigh.denver.net [204.144.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA08795 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:22:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdc@milehigh.denver.net) Received: (from jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id UAA22156; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:23:36 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <19971125202336.17517@denver.net> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:23:36 -0700 From: John-David Childs To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND 8.1.1 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: ; from Gordon Henderson on Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 08:50:06PM +0000 Organization: Enterprise Internet Solutions Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tuesday November 25, 1997, Gordon Henderson had this to say about "Re: BIND 8.1.1": > On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > > 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! That is a big issue for me...as I have quite a few secondaries who are running NT 4.9.whatever and I always come up with "record too short" when I do a named-xfer from Bind 8.1.1 (2.2.5-RELEASE) but works flawlessly when I retrieve the zone info from any of several 4.9.6 versions of Unix BIND. Other than that, 8.1.1 has a few goodies under the hood which convinced me to install it on my main DNS boxes last May. I wrote a csh script (my perl still sucks but I'm getting there :), to convert my *.boot, primary and secondary zone files to the 8.X format in about 30 minutes. > 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... > > Gordon -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions System Administrator @denver.net/Internet-Coach/@ronan.net & Network Engineer 1031 S. Parker Rd. #I-8 Denver, CO 80231 As of this^H^H^H^H next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.