Re: BIND 4 to 8

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Thank you all for your helpful suggestions,

actually the mistake was mine, I was missing a ";" in my named.conf file,

after this everything worked beautifully...

I discovered this by checking my /var/log/messages file...

I think someone mentioned that the data file from 4 cannot work wit 8, that's
untrue,

according to the 3rd edition of DNS & BIND, and as I experienced myself,

all that was needed was to modify my named.conf file...

thanks again,

Ahbaid.

Eric Sisler wrote:

> Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy> wrote:
>
> >I have had BIND 4 something running fine, however I decided to up to
> >BIND 8...
> >
> >after removing 4 and loading the 8 RPM, I can't get it to work,
> >
> >I changed /etc/named.boot to /etc/named.conf and changed the file to the
> >8 format,
>
> >my data files are as they were before...
>
> The data (zone) files are ok, but the format of /etc/named.conf is
> completely different than the old /etc/named.boot.  There's a perl script
> under /usr/doc/bind-[version] that will convert an old 4 boot file to the
> newer 8 conf file format.
>
> >I used DNS & BIND from O'Reilly as a reference and everything seems
> >fine,
>
> If you're going to play with any of the new security features of bind 8,
> you should get the 3rd version of the DNS & BIND book.  You may want to
> have a look at ISC's website as well.
>
> HTH
>
> -Eric
>
> Eric Sisler
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> Westminster Public Library
> Westminster, CO, USA
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