Questions about new Bind installation

[Lisa Casey]

Hi Brad,

"Brad Knowles" <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote in message 
news:dgrpvt$ni5$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> 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?
>

I was unaware that when I installed FreeBSD 5.3 Bind would  automatically be 
installed. I figured if I wanted to run Bind I'ld need to install it, just 
as I did for Apache on this box (this box is replacing a DNS/Web server 
which had been running for a long time on FreeBSD 3.2).  I don't really see 
why just installing the FreeBSD OS would automatically install a DNS server, 
every unix box box doesn't necessarily need to run DNS, my mail server 
doesn't, it relies on my DNS servers but I suppose this is beside the point.

I chose Bind 8.4 because I had previously been running Bind 8.2.5 and I was 
making  enough changes for now. I planned to upgrade to Bind 9 after the 
dust from this change settles.

So are you saying that I now have a FreeBSD box with both Bind 8.4 and Bind 
9 on it and I could choose to run whichever I pleased just by changing path 
statements in my  rc.conf file?

Thanks,

Lisa  Casey