bind 4.9.7 to 8.2.x

[Barry Margolin]

In article <376FE7EE.3AE43B93 at eps.mcgill.ca>,
Steeve  <steeve at eps.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>
>Luke Borg wrote:
>> 
>> I was wondering if theres anything i have to do if i want to import my
>named files from 4.9.7 to the current stable release of bind 8.2.x?
>> are they transferable and is there anything special i need to change in
>any of my configuration files.
>
>Yes, there's a perl script that will convert the named.boot
>to named.conf that comes with the source distribution.  Look
>for a file called named-convert.pl or something like that.
>The database files are very similar but it might be worth
>your while to go through them to clean them up.

You need to add $TTL directives to all the DB files to keep 8.2.x from
issuing lots of warnings.  The parameter to the $TTL directive should
generally be what you had in the Minimum field of the SOA records.

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