Upgrade from Bind 4.9.7 to Bind 8.2.2 on Windows NT

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Oct 25 15:55:01 UTC 1999


In article <NDBBICGFMLHACCBMCEHGCEHOCDAA.webmaster at lawtonok.net>,
webmaster <webmaster at lawtonok.net> wrote:
>Hello,
>I am attempting to upgrade my primary server from BIND 4.9.7 to BIND 8.2.2
>rel version for Windows NT. It is an NT 4.0 machine with SP 5. I have
>compiled it and am using the release verion. I converted my old named.boot
>to named.conf using named-bootconf.pl. I am told that I can keep my old zone
>records and just add the $TTL statement. I have done so and get back the
>following errors:
>
>master zone "lawtonok.net" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 1999102501)
>lawtonok.DOM:713:NS2.lawtonok.net: CNAME and OTHER data error
>lawtonok.DOM:711:WWW.lawtonok.net: CNAME and OTHER data error
>WWW.lawtonok.net has CNAME and other data (invalid)

Both those names have both a CNAME and MX records.  This wasn't allowed in
4.9.7, either, so I'm not sure why you think this is specific to your
upgrade.

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