Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:37:20 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: lambert@troi.csw.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND 8.2.2P5 Upgrade Instructions? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19991123093720.01d02aa0@staff.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <199911230444.WAA18061@csw.csw.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911221927360.21521-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>
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At 09:55 PM 11/22/99 -0600, lambert@troi.csw.net wrote:
>In <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911221927360.21521-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>, on
>11/22/99
> at 07:29 PM, "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org> said:
>
>>On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Darren Foo wrote:
>
>>> Are there instructions somewhere on how to upgrade from 8.x.x to the
>>> latest bind? I don't want to break my current DNS server.
>>>
>>>
>
>>cd /usr/ports/net/bind8 && make install
>>echo 'named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"' >> /etc/rc.conf
>
>>(you may have to link /etc/namedb/named.conf -> /etc/named.conf)
>
>Before you do a production machine, make sure you don't have names that
>are both CNAMEs and MX records. It will now refuse the domain file and
>that domain could be down until you figure it out.
>
>I ran 8.2.2P5 against the same zone files on a seperate machine first. I
>had a lot of fixing to do. The previous admin was MX happy and they had
>never turned up as a problem before.
>
From the default named.conf, I think the option below will change it to the
previous behaviour.
multiple-cnames no; // if yes, then a name my have more
// than one CNAME RR. This use
// is non-standard and is not
// recommended, but it is available
// because previous releases supported
// it and it was used by large sites
// for load balancing.
---Mike
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