BIND 4.9.7 -> 8.2.2

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Wed Nov 3 15:25:34 UTC 1999


In article <Pine.OSF.3.96.991103094533.23768A-100000 at osf1.gmu.edu>,
Xunhua WANG  <xwang4 at gmu.edu> wrote:
>Hi, all,
>
>We are running BIND 4.97 for NT. Now we plan to upgrade it to BIND822 (for
>NT).
>
>How can we port the orignal configuration file to the new BIND? It seems
>that there are a lot of changes for the configuration: for example, the
>BIND497 uses c:\winnt\named.boot but BIND822 uses
>c:\winnt\system32\dns\etc\named.conf, and so on?

BIND 8 includes a program "named-confboot" that will translate a named.boot
file into named.conf syntax.

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