8 vs 9

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently running version 8.3.1 with ~ 200 domains (and behaving pretty
> good) but I need to move this service to another machine.
> 
> My question is: Is it wise to upgrade from 8.3.1 to 9.2.1 ?

	I would go to 9.2.2rc1.

> Or it would be hard and take time to reconfigure the domains and the conf
> file?
	
	BIND 9 is picker.  Logging is slightly different.
	See doc/misc/migration.

> Are those two versions conf files compatible?
	
	BIND 9 should read all BIND 8 named.conf files.  The one known
	exception is those will "allow-update" in slave zones.

> Do I really need to upgrade?

	http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pedro Marques
> pedromarques at seara.com
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