Pointer to docs for 4.9 -- > 8.2 Upgrade??

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:52:12PM -0800, Thomas Briglia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to upgrade some servers from 4.9 to 8.2. The BOG says to use 
> "named-bootconf", a shell script to convert my files. So far neither the BOG, 
> nor any other docs really state *how* to use this shell script, nor does the 
> script offer any kind of help with a "-help, -h, or ? " option.
> 
> Does anyone know of a "cookbook" style doc on how to upgrade all your files to 
> the new format?
> 
> Please cc me on reply for I am not yet on the bind-users list.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thomas D. Briglia
> SunIR Network Security Group - NSG  (formerly STE)

Besides
	named-bootconf < named.boot > named.conf
one must make sure that all zone files are legal: e.g., no names
containing the character '_', and no names defined in zone files where
they don't belong [e.g.  mad-magazine.com inside zone internal.sun.com].
In addition, 8.2.2 changed the semantics of the SOA record.  The last
item is no longer the default TTL: it is the default negative expiration
time.  The default TTL should be added in as a configuration directive
at the beginning of the file, e.g.:

$TTL	86400

It is generally recommended that you use 8.2.2-P5.

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