Can a BIND8 server be a secondary to a BIND 4.9 Server?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> I am upgrading from BIND 4.9 to Bind 8.1.2 and I have secondary statements
> in my named.boot that I converted to the new "slave" BIND8 syntax and copied
> to the new BIND 8 master.  It's not picking up the zone files from the
> servers for which it is a "slave" or secondary.  Our company is a
> wholly-owned subsidiary and OUR master server also acts as a secondary to
> our corporate parent firm.
> 
> Can a BIND8 server be a secondary/slave to a BIND 4.9 server?  Is there a
> configuration option in BIND 8 to tell it that it's master is a BIND 4.9
> server?

	There are no known combinations of BIND servers that don't
	interoperate.

	If zone transfers are failing a cause will be being logged via
	syslog (/var/adm/messages).

	The current BIND version is 8.2.1.  There have been several
	security fixes between 8.1.2 and 8.2.1.

	Mark

> 
> Ray Galuszka
> mailto:galuszr at vkm.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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