Upgrading to BIND9 (was Re: bind8.2 security issues)

[Steve Foster]

At 16:20 01/07/02 +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
>Read the migration notes. BIND9 uses a new protocol and program to
>control the name server. The program is called rndc and it supersedes
>ndc. The migration notes have a reference to rndc-confgen which is the
>utility used to create the named.conf statements needed to set up the
>server side of the rndc control socket. [Though if you read the ARM
>and man page for rndc, you shouldn't need a utility to create those
>statements for named.conf.] The log messages are telling you the
>server didn't create this socket (=> you can't control the name server
>with rndc) because it doesn't do this unless the server's explicitly
>told about it in named.conf.
>


i'll have another browse at the notes...


>    Steve> my conf file is attached below, i couldn't find a sample
>    Steve> resolver file, or does anybody have a 9 specific one i can
>    Steve> review.
>
>The syntax and contents of resolv.conf does not change between BIND8
>and BIND9.

i know that, i was specifically asking about named.conf files for a resolver.



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Steve Foster
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