Upgrading from 9.8.3 to 9.9.4

[Alan Clegg]

On Jan 23, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Mike Hoskins (michoski) <michoski at cisco.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Schulz <schulz at adi.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 9:50 AM
> To: "bind-users at lists.isc.org" <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
> Subject: RE: Upgrading from 9.8.3 to 9.9.4
> 
>>> I just remembered there was also the change to the db file
>>> having a default raw format on slaves unless specified.
>> 
>> Interesting. I did not notice that when it happened, but now that I
>> look, I see that my slaves indeed have raw format files. Apparently
>> the switch over did not require me to do anything.
> 
> For those who are interested, if you search list archives you can see the situations where it caused problems for some.

I will inject here that the change in format of the zone file on local disk only causes problems if you do thing that you are not supposed to do on slave servers (like looking at or modifying the locally stored zone data).

If you replace any poking or prodding of the local "text" file with:

             dig @localhost +axfr +onesoa <zone>

life returns to normal and will remain so "forever"     8-)

[And it even does really cool things like normalize the format of the data into single lines that are really cake to parse unless you use "+multi" and then you get exactly the same format that you had in the text files]

AlanC
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