Any Pointers for Upgrading from 4.9.7 to 8?

[Saqib Mustafa]

Listen if u have the book Bind and DNS, u will find in the end of chapter
4 how to convert the db.domain files from 4.9.7 to 8.22.

Saqib Mustafa
	Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System (NACHOS!!!)	

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Josh Higham wrote:

> There is a namedconv.pl (?) perl script that will translate the zone files.
> However, I'm not sure that it keeps all the information that you want.  I
> only took a quick peek, but it appeared to strip all the comments from the
> named.boot.  I made my own script, but our hosting setup is fairly
> straightforward, so it wasn't hard to do.
> 
> Josh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad K. Schuller <chads at websuite.com>
> To: Bind List Server <bind-users at isc.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 10:13 AM
> Subject: Any Pointers for Upgrading from 4.9.7 to 8?
> 
> 
> >To whom it may concern,
> >I am going to take the list advice...  Upgrading to version 8.  Our company
> >has been puting this off for way too long.  Anyone got any pointers?
> >How about a perl script that will change the named.boot to named.conf?  I
> am
> >assuming I can you the same zone files.  And yes, I do have to latest
> >version on o'relly.
> >TIA,
> >chads
> >
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> >
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