Interoperability between BIND versions

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> Dear All,
> 
> I am about to upgrade our master servers to v8.2.2p5. However, several slave
>  
> servers run an older version of BIND, ranging from 4.9.3 to 4.9.7. (All on S
> un 
> Solaris 2.5.1.) The slaves will be upgraded later.
> 
> - Can anyone tell me which interoperability issues I certainly should not 
>   forget about ?

	BIND 8 is stricter in its checking.  Check the syslog after you
	start the new server and address the issues reported.

	BIND 8.2 introduced the $TTL directive, see RFC 2308.  BIND 8.2
	onwards warns about zones still using the old SOA minimum semantics.

> - A pointer to more info on this issue is also much appreciated. (I have rea
> d
>   Chapter 13 of "The Book" and have access to the archives of this list.)
> - Did you experience specific peculiarities ?
> 
> Many thanks to all who respond !
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
> 
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