Upgrading BIND

[James]

> > I would like to bring it up to v8 to take
> > advantage of the new bug fixes etc, but would a complete reworking
> of
> > the configuration files be necesary for this?
>
> There's a converter in BIND-8.x and 9.x that does that magic
> conversion to
> the files.
>
> How to do it:
>
> * Build and install BIND-9.1.1 on the webserver
> * Transfer the zonefiles
> * Transfer the old config
> * try converting the config using the supplied tool.
> * try starting BIND
>
> I bet it won't work, since BIND-8.x and 9.x are VERY strict and
> enforce RFC
> conformance of the zones. Thus you'll need to watch your log and fix
> the
> Zones accordingly.

Thanks for the help.  Is the syntax for db files going to change any?