Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:10:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/5052: upgrade BIND Message-ID: <199711151810.KAA22270@hub.freebsd.org>
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From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net>
To: "evanc@synapse.net" <evanc@synapse.net>,
"FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Subject: Re: bin/5052: upgrade BIND
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 97 10:05:41 -0800
On 15 Nov 1997 14:40:02 -0000, evanc@synapse.net wrote:
> The 3.0-current BIND should be upgraded to version 8.1.1
> (currently 4.9.6). I need this to do dynamic DNS, and unlike
> other parts of the system, merging in a new resolver to libc
> is not something I'm interested in playing around with :-)
I think that you have some basic misunderstandings of how BIND
8.1.1 works. Using tremendous oversimplification, the libraries that are
included with it aren't used by anything by default, since according to
the ISC they aren't quite ready for prime time. What you want is a system
with the lib and include files from 4.9.6 (which we have) and the binaries
from 8.1.1, which will allow you to do your dynamic updates and such.
What I generally do if I'm upgrading from source is to build the
world, then reinstall BIND 8.1.1. If you're feeling adventurous, you can
try something I've been experimenting with, and go into
/usr/src/usr.sbin/Makefile and tell it not to descend into the subdir's of
things you don't want it to rebuild. I haven't done anything exhaustive
with it yet, but off hand I'd say delete named named.reload named.restart
ndc nslookup. With something like named though, it's probably better to
just write it over the top anyway, just to be safe. There are some other
binaries from the BIND package that are built other places, but I haven't
had breakfast yet, so I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. :)
I realize that this probably isn't the answer you were looking
for, but the short version is that what you want isn't possible with BIND
8.1.1.
Happy hacking,
Doug
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