From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 23 14:41:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA18360 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 14:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypher.net (black@zen.pratt.edu [205.232.115.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18355 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 14:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from black@localhost) by cypher.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id RAA06001; Fri, 23 May 1997 17:04:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 17:04:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black To: sthaug@nethelp.no cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Named -- Specifying addresses to bind to. In-Reply-To: <21800.864423554@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ugh, this is like pulling teeth. the issue is not EXACTLY which version of bind is included in the release, but rather only that it is RECENT because the ancient one currently in the distribution is inadequate. yeesh, why is this so hard to understand? On Fri, 23 May 1997 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > that isn't the point. currently, you have to make world, then make > > bind...why not just put it in /usr/src so it just gets compiled along > > with everything else? > > If you want to put bind 8.1 in /usr/src, you should at least wait > until 8.1.1 (currently in alpha testing) is released. > > Also, the config file format for 8.1 is radically different. Yes, a > conversion script is supplied, but this may still be stumbling block > for some people. > > Aside from that, I'm running 8.1.1 (alpha) on several machines, and > it seems to work just fine. > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no >