Converting from BIND4 -> BIND8

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Nov 12 18:24:03 UTC 1999


In article <A14069D2FE61D21184D200805FAC790C167796 at EXCHANGE>,
Brian Kerr  <bkerr at isgcolumbia.com> wrote:
>Hello, I'm curious as to what is involved in upgrading from bind4 to bind8,
>the documentation I've found is not helpful in any way.  If there are any
>documents that anyone knows of that address this specifically I would
>appreciate the location of said documents :)

BIND 8 comes with a script, named-confboot, that converts the named.boot
file to named.conf syntax.  If you're upgrading to 8.2 or higher, you also
need to add '$TTL <default-TTL>' directives to all your primary zone files.

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