named.boot vs. named.conf ???

[Barry Margolin]

In article <002101bf6937$be6d11c0$6401a8c0 at laptop.coxnetwork.net>,
Duane Cox <dcox at coxnetwork.com> wrote:
>could someone please explain to me the difference between named.boot and
>named.conf
>it seems as though these files could server the same purpose.. but why two?
>is it save to delete named.boot if you are using named.conf?

BIND 4 uses named.boot, BIND 8 uses named.conf.  They changed the name of
the file because the syntax changed radically.

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