upgrading from BIND 4.x to 8.x
Jim Reid
jim at rfc1035.com
Fri Nov 24 17:28:55 UTC 2000
>>>>> ">" == LC's Nospam Newsreading account <nospam at ifctr.mi.cnr.it> writes:
>> We are going to upgrade our DNS from Solaris 2.5 (BIND 4.x) to
>> 2.7 (BIND 8.x). I understand that the named.boot file will be
>> replaced by named.conf, and that the named-bootconf script
>> takes care of the conversion.
>> Can you confirm that we can run with the (direct and reverse)
>> SOA files currently in use, with *no change* but adding a $TTL
>> directive in front, with the same value presently used in the
>> last field of the SOA record ?
Nobody can confirm that unless they analyse your files. BIND8 is far
less tolerant of illegal constructs and syntax errors in zone files
than BIND4 was. I suggest you set up a BIND8 server on a test system
and see what errors you get when you load your existing zone files.
Any errors should be fixed before the actual upgrade: all you're doing
is getting rid of things that should never have been allowed in the
first place.
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