newbie help

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	BIND 4 as distributed by ISC *never* supported Solaris 2.6 or
	later.

	This fix to this is to remove the declaration of gethostname()
	found in the BIND 4 source.
	
	Mark

> I am new to this so bear with me.
> 
> I am trying to upgrade bind from version 4.9.4 to release 4.9.8-REL on a
> Solaris 6 system to fix the security hole listed in CERT CA-2001-02.  I
> opted for 4.9.8 instead of  8.2.3 or 9.1 as a quick fix until we can test
> the newer version and bring all out DNS servers up to the latest at the same
> time.
> 
> I am unable to get the build to work.  Running make gives me errors
> involving conflicting types for gethostname in conf/portability.h
> 
> I have read through the README and INSTALL files and made ( I think ) the
> appropriate modes to the Makefile to support Solaris 2.6 and my compiler
>  gcc v.2.8.1 0
> 
> As I said, I am new to all this and any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon Page
> jon.page at pnl.gov
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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