From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 18 10:06:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03522 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03499; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id MAA11574; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 12:06:26 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199707181706.MAA11574@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: upgrading to a safe BIND? To: brandon@roguetrader.com (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 12:06:26 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Brandon Gillespie at "Jul 18, 97 10:05:53 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Brandon Gillespie said: > My primary DNS is running FreeBSD 2.2-970205-GAMMA. In due time I will be > upgrading to 2.2.2, although I may just wait for 3.0 *shrug*. > > In the mean time, I would like to fix my BIND server. There is no port > for it (I guess since its in the distribution).. so which bind do I want? > bind-4 or bind-8? And if I get bind-8, will my current configurations > work? What differs between the bind distributed with FreeBSD and the bind > at isc.org? Bind as distributed in FreeBSD is 4.9.x. And it works fine. Of course, there are security bugs. I haven't tried compiling a newer version of 4.9.x lately. I had some trouble earlier (2.1.[5-7]). 4.9.x distributions are written to be platform specific. Ie. it wants to change libraries. the 8.x distribution does not do this. I did compile bind-8 on 2.2.1 and it seemed to run fine as a secondary. I didn't try it as a primary, though there should be no difference. It does use a different config file than bind-4. named.conf instead of named.boot, I think. But there is a little script (perl?) that comes with the distribution to convert it. There are some neat things in bind-8. You might want to play with it. I tried compiling it on 2.1.7, but it failed, due to a problem in a system header file that wasn't Posix compliant in 2.1.7 but was fixed in 2.2.x. -- "I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. --Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams, making excuses over his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal, 1987