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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:10:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
To:        dan@dpcsys.com
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Root nameservers messed up?
Message-ID:  <199707180610.XAA24363@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> writes:

> If you use 8.1.1 it shouldn't be any big deal....  Since 8.1.1 is
> all userland you just build it, convert named.boot to named.conf,
> kill the old named and startup the new one.  Your DNS will only
> be down for as long as it takes to load the zone files.

Just thought I'd note I haven't found it quite that simple.  Granted,
I'm only an hour into this little project, but an hour was all I'd
budgeted -- sort of thought this was going to be a no-brainer.  It
appears that the syntax of the named.conf file is different from that
of the named.boot file of bind 4.x.x.  Furthermore, all the documentation
I pulled down from ftp.isc.org the other day describes the old boot
file format; so far, the only reference for the new named.conf file format
that I've found is the yacc grammar.  I can live with that if I
have to; but did I take a wrong turn somewhere?  I think, just in case,
I'll go to bed and get a fresh start in the morning ....

Jim Shankland
Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.



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