MAcOS X 10.9 upgrade removes BIND

[Mark Andrews]

In message <87bo2dxf8g.fsf at csgate4.strotmann.de>, Carsten Strotmann writes:
> Hello Eduardo,
> 
> thanks for confirming that MacOS X removed BIND.

It has been moved to the Server Edition according to krypted.com[1].

However it would be nice for Apple to LET PEOPLE KNOW in advance.
No where in the AppStore does it warn about functionality being
removed.  Lots of new stuff being promoted but no warnings about
things going away.

If you go to the Apple Web site and technical specs page[2] of
Mavericks and look the the "OS X Server Product Overview"[3] you
find it is out of date as it is still pointing to Mountain Lion.

If you have already "purchased" Mavericks please add a negative
review which warns about the functionality being removed from the
basic edition.  At least then people may be warned about this.

Apple should be encouraging people to run validating resolvers on
their machines, not making it harder for them to do this.

Mark

[1] http://krypted.com/mac-security/setup-the-dns-service-in-os-x-mavericks-server/
[2] http://www.apple.com/au/osx/specs/
[3] http://movies.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/server/docs/OSXServer_Product_Overview.pdf
 
> Our new BIND installers for MacOS X 10.9 are now available at 
> <http://support.menandmice.com/download/bind/macosx/10.9-Mavericks/>
> 
> I've build BIND 9.9.4 (with and without RRL) and BIND 9.8.6. If anyone
> need 9.6-ESV let me know.
> 
> Please report any issues with this installers to me.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Carsten Strotmann
> 
> Eduardo Bonsi <beartcom at pacbell.net> writes:
> 
> > I want to confirm what Carsten said here;
> >
> > I just performed an upgrade from Snow Leopard, 10.6.8 one day before
> > Yesterday. The upgrade itself went fine except for BIND and Apache.
> >
> > After upgrading to OS X Mavericks, 10.9, the upgrade removed all the
> > files mentioned bellow plus all the Websites on Apache configuration
> > as well. OS X Mavericks no longer have the web sharing. So it is
> > highly advisable to backup your BIND and Apache configuration files
> > before upgrade. Fortunately I had a copy of all these files in a
> > backup mirror server. So, for me was just a matter of connecting and
> > copying all these files back to OS X Mavericks and set the nrdc key
> > again.
> >
> > Here is the files to backup;
> >
> > Full path to the named.conf file       /etc/named.conf	
> > Full path to the named executable      /usr/sbin/named 	
> > Full path to whois command             whois 	
> > Full path to ndc command               ndc	
> > Full path to rndc command              rndc 	
> > Full path to rndc-confgen command      rndc-confgen
> > Full path to the rndc.conf file        /etc/rndc.conf	
> > Full path to named-checkzone command   named-checkzone	
> > Full path to named-checkconf command   named-checkconf	
> > Full path to dnssec-keygen command     dnssec-keygen 	
> > Full path to dnssec-signzone command   dnssec-signzone	
> >
> > In addition do not forget to back-up the PID file location in your
> > system whatever the PID file it is located;
> >
> > Default PID file location  ? Your location
> >
> > On 10/25/13, 12:36 AM, Carsten Strotmann wrote:
> >> Hi BIND users on MacOS,
> >>
> >> it looks like the upgrade to MacOS X 10.9 "Mavericks" removes
> >> BIND. Early reports also indicate that the upgrade process also removes
> >> the BIND configuration file "/etc/named.conf" and all zonefiles in
> >> "/var/named". It happend on my machine, and there are reports coming in
> >> from other users, but I need to confirm this on a lab environment.
> >>
> >> The Men & Mice BIND MacOS X installers at currently fail on MacOS X
> >> 10.9, because /var/named is not there. I'm working on updating the Men 
> &
> >> Mice packages to work on MacOS X 10.9.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> Carsten Strotmann
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