FW: What is the difference between Ver. 4 and Ver. 8?

[Chris Zimmerman]

2nd posting-Can anyone help

Chris Zimmerman

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Zimmerman 
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 23, 2000 8:21 AM
> To:	BIND Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject:	What is the difference between Ver. 4 and Ver. 8?
> 
> Please forgive my ignorance, but I have recently run into an issue with
> BIND 4.x.x (AIX 4.2.1), where I am more familiar with BIND 8.x.x.  My
> problem is this:  we have an internal DNS server for hostname resolution
> running on AIX 4.2.1.  I have been trying to send e-mail between systems
> internally (UNIX to UNIX, or NT to UNIX), but I have been unable as
> sendmail has been complaining of a "Hostname Lookup Failure."  After
> conversing with the sendmail folks for a few days, I decided to try
> running BIND 8.2.2 patch 5 on my local Linux machine, import enough DNS
> information to make it functional for email between 2 systems, then try to
> send mail.  As soon as I started BIND locally, even the queued messages
> from previous attempts were delivered.  What I would like to know is what
> is different about 8 that is preventing 4 from working?  
> 
> One thing that did arise during the troubleshooting was that the internal
> DNS is giving non-authoritative answers for everything.  To see if it was
> a config issue with the named.boot, I tried the script that converts the
> named.boot to the named.conf, and then restarted my local DNS-everything
> still worked.  We are looking to upgrade to BIND 8, but I will not only
> need some solid reasons for doing so, but I need to see if I can fix the
> BIND 4 on the AIX machine until this upgrade can be completed.
> 
> Thank you,
> Chris Zimmerman