Changes in 8.2x

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Mon Jan 29 16:08:11 UTC 2001


On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:49:24AM -0600, hostmaster wrote:
> 
> I noticed when I was reading through the INSTALL file for the bind version
> 8.2x that they are doing away with named.boot files, is this correct?
> 
> When I install bind via the normal installation of RH6.2 it creates a
> named.boot file, so I'm wondering if RH is again deviating from the
> standard.

Long, long ago, when BIND 8 started, it did away with named.boot files
because the named.conf files had a radically different syntax.  IIRC,
RH delivers both v4 and v8.  No matter what they delivered, you should
upgrade to 8.2.3 or 9.1.0.

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