Upgrading Bind

[Kevin Darcy]

Kalyan Manchikanti wrote:

> Hello,
> This is my first post here, so please excuse me if i have asked a stupid
> question. We have our environment running a master
> server and a slave server in a different location.The version of Bind we
> are running is 8.1.2.We have decided that this version should be upgraded
> due to various security reasons(preferably 8.3.3).My question/ questions
> are,
> (1).If i upgrade to Bind 8.3.3 do i have to make any configurational
> changes to my zone files and my named.conf?
>
> (2).Have any of you guys had any problems / issues after upgrading to this
> version?

You should put $TTL directives at the top of all your master files (see the
BIND-included documentation or RFC 2308), otherwise named will complain a lot
into the log files.

Other than that, I think BIND 8.3.3 accepts everything that BIND 8.1.2 did...


- Kevin