BIND 9 to BIND 8 downgrade

[Jim McAtee]

My apologies for the questions.  I know... RTFM.  I found the BIND 8
documentation and it looks like master files should work the same.

For the configuration file, BIND 8 has a 'query-source' option, which may be
what I'm looking for.  How does this differ from BIND 9's 'notify-source'
and 'transfer-source' options?  Just less granularity in terms of control?

Thanks,
Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim McAtee" <jmcatee at mediaodyssey.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: BIND 9 to BIND 8 downgrade


>
> Because of the problems with the Win32 port of BIND 9.2, I'm in the midst
of
> switching our Win2k BIND 9 nameservers to BIND 8.3.1.  Formerly, we were
> running BIND 4.9, so I'm not completely familiar with the configuration
> differences between BIND 8 and 9.
>
> Will master zone files work well if they're unchanged from BIND 9?  A
> typical zone file on our servers looks like the one shown below.  Is the
> $TTL directive recognized by BIND 8.3, or would this zone file have a
> default TTL on records of just 20 minutes?
>
> $TTL 1d
> @ IN SOA ns1.ourdomain.com. hostmaster.ourdomain.com. (
>                         2001112701  ; serial
>                         4h          ; refresh
>                         30m         ; retry
>                         28d         ; expire
>                         20m       ) ; minimum
>                    7d   IN NS       ns1.ourdomain.com.
>                    7d   IN NS       ns2.ourdomain.com.
>                         IN MX       10 mail.ourdomain.com.
>                         IN MX       20 mail2.ourdomain.com.
>                         IN A        204.138.18.100
> www                     IN A        204.138.18.100
>
>
> In the options section of the configuration file, we use at least a couple
> of BIND 9 specific options.  Is there a BIND 8 equivalent to notify-source
> or transfer-source?  When I set up the servers under BIND 9, I believe
that
> these options were necessary to make notifies and transfers function when
> running on machines with multiple IP addresses.
>
> acl "localmachines" {
>   204.138.47.0/25;
>   192.168.1.0/24;
> };
>
> acl "secondarydns" {
>   216.138.18.101;
>   216.138.18.84;
> };
>
> options {
>   directory "c:\named";
>   listen-on { 204.138.47.6; };
>   notify-source 204.138.47.6;
>   transfer-source 204.138.47.6;
>   allow-transfer { "localmachines"; "secondarydns"; };
> };
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>