From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 18 07:51:24 2003 Return-Path: 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 C8D6237B405 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpgate.proventum.net (smtpgate.proventum.net [195.216.217.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662EE43F93 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jvennervald@proventum.net) Received: from jvennervald.intra.proventum.net (jvennervald.intra.proventum.net [10.0.2.133]) by smtpgate.proventum.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C1D5293E; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:51:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Jacob Vennervald Madsen To: dan@slightlystrange.org In-Reply-To: <20030818144319.GA95972@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> References: <1061216701.1099.17.camel@jvennervald.intra.proventum.net> <20030818144319.GA95972@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-11) Date: 18 Aug 2003 16:51:01 +0200 Message-Id: <1061218261.1100.26.camel@jvennervald.intra.proventum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 cc: FreeBSD Mailing lists Subject: Re: Removing default installed BIND X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:51:24 -0000 Is BIND9 not stable since BIND8 is the default? On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:43, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:25:00PM +0200, Jacob Vennervald Madsen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a FreeBSD 4.8 box which I want to setup as a DNS server. > > By default BIND8 is installed but I want to use BIND9. How do I remove > > the old BIND version? > > The easiest thing to do is install BIND9 from the ports, and set > named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named" in /etc/rc.conf. This won't remove > the version in the base system, but it will cause the newer version to be > started at boot time. > > If you really want to delete the default version, find and delete any > BIND-related files (the packing list for the ports version of BIND8 may be > helpful here) before you install the port of BIND9. You should probably > also set `NO_BIND=true' in /etc/make.conf, so that you don't end up building > them again at your next buildworld. > > I have only attempted this once, though, and found the effort was not > rewarded with any real sense of achievement. > > > It doesn't seem to be a package. > > It's not. It comes as part of the base system. > > Dan > > -- > Daniel Bye > > PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc > PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F > _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > - against HTML, vCards and X > - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ -- Venlig hilsen / Best regards, Jacob Vennervald System Developer Proventum Solutions ApS Tuborg Boulevard 12 2900 Hellerup Denmark Phone: +45 36 94 41 66 Mobile: +45 61 68 58 51