Newbie (Probably Typical) Question...

[Miss Kitty]

Hello All, sorry for the bizarre handle here... am using one of our
workstations, for one of our hosts.  Didn't realize that it had this
configured for it.  8/

Anyway, it's Bind 8.2.1.

Also.. here's what I did:

1 - Installed port of 8.2.1, using FreeBSD's Sysinstall utility.  Ran "make
install" and it did fine.
2 - Copied over old (4.x) named.boot into the /etc/namedb dir, and ran
"named-bootconf".. went well.
3 - Copied over all .dns (zone) files from old 4.x system... into /etc/named
dir.
4 - Moved named.conf to /etc.
5 - typed "ndc start".
6 - typed "ndc status" ... came back with "not running".
7 - changed one of the entries in the named.conf file to make it a slave...
checked with examples...
8 - typed "ndc start".
9 - typed "ndc status" ... came back with "not running"... and new file
wasn't in /etc/namedb
10 - Gave up, and sent these messages to you nice folks.

Hope this helps.

    Lee (not anywhere CLOSE to a "miss kitty".. whatever that is.. heh)

<Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote in message
news:199909082221.IAA20765 at bsdi.dv.isc.org...
>
> Lee,
>      you didn't tell us which version of BIND 8 you are attempting
> to run.  In the earlier versions of BIND 8.x ndc was silent unless
> you turned on tracing.  There were also implementation errors w.r.t
> ndc in the server.  If you are not running BIND 8.2.1 or BIND
> 8.2.2-T3B I would upgrade and try again.
>
> Mark
>
> P.S. interesting handle
>
> > Well, not really a "newbie".. at least not to Bind.  Am running 4.x and
am
> > now wanting to setup an 8.x Bind install on a FreeBSD 3.x machine.
> >
> > Can't get ndc to run, and can't find any error log... it just doesn't do
> > anything.  Have gone thru just about all the examples and faq's I could
> > find... but nothing seems to work.
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions, point me to a good tutorial on this
version..
> > or?
> >
> > Thanks in advance to all.
> >
> >     Lee
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
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>