Upgrading BIND

[Robert L. Yelvington]

why wouldn't you upgrade to BIND 9.1.1?

robt

> >Hi,
> >
> >I've just stepped into the shoes of a Network Administrator at an ISP
> >and I've got a few questions.
> >
> >Right now there are two servers up and running.  One is the Web Server
> >and the other is running BIND, my mail server, and the authentication
> >for my dial up customers.  I'm having a pretty vicious problem with my
> >mail server in that it is spontaneously cutting itself off after running
> >for a few days.  I'm thinking that there are too many rescources being
> >used at one time on this  server and I would like to move BIND to my Web
> >Server as this seems like a more logical place for it anyway.
> >
> >Now, my question for you all is what would be involved in this?  Would I
> >essentially be installing a fresh version of BIND onto the Web Server
> >and then copying over the old config files?  Currently BIND v4.6 is
> >running on the server.   I would like to bring it up to v8 to take
> >advantage of the new bug fixes etc, but would a complete reworking of
> >the configuration files be necesary for this?
> >
> >Thanks for your help,
> >James
> >
> >
> >