Updgrading to 8.2.1 from 4.9.6

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37C4302F.FB2A8D7B at mila.com>, J.B. LaRue <jblarue at mila.com> wrote:
>I just downloaded the binaries for BIND 8.2.1 to run on a FreeBSD box.
>I'm a little hessitant to just install the binaries, and yet can't seem
>to find any references to installation. I have downloaded the docs as
>well, but nothing in there specifies anything of use to me.
>
>Do I have to kill named, first?
>Then just copy the binaries over and run the perl script that came with
>8.2.1?

You should also add $TTL directives to all your master zone files, to set
the default TTL (as of BIND 8.2, it no longer uses the MinTTL field in the
SOA record as the default TTL).

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