Transit from 4 to 8?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37EFCB66.68C792A at acp.org>,
David Spigelman  <dspigelm at acp.org> wrote:
>I'm moving my DNS service from one machine to another. The new machine
>has whatever variety of 8 that comes with Solaris 7. The old machine has
>been running a version of 4.
>
>I've noticed that there are some *BIG* differences between the versions.
>The first one that's hitting me is that version 4 used a named.boot file
>as opposed to 8's named.conf. The formats for those files are nothing
>similar.
>
>Now, I need to transit from my old 4 to the new 8. Where do I even
>begin? Are there any resources out there to help with the changeover?
>Any guides? Anything?

I don't know offhand if Sun includes it, but the regular BIND 8
distribution includes a named-bootconf script that will translate
named.boot to named.conf syntax.  That should be all you need to convert to
the version of BIND that Solaris 7 includes (if you were going to BIND 8.2,
the latest version that ISC distributes, you would also need to add $TTL
directives to all your primary zone files).

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