Questions about new Bind installation

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Wed Sep 21 14:10:23 UTC 2005


At 9:30 AM -0400 2005-09-21, Lisa Casey wrote:

>  I recently set up a FreeBSD 5.3 box and installed Bind 8.4 from ports.

	FreeBSD 5.x comes with BIND-9 out-of-the-box, set to run in a 
secure chroot environment.  Why would you want to run anything else? 
In particular, why would you want to rip out a BIND-9 installation 
and go backwards to BIND-8 instead?

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