using in.named and named.boot on BIND V8

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:32 PM -0700 5/24/01, Ravi Nair wrote:

>  BIND 8 is seen to work since i am able to resolve
>  names on the dns machine itself as well as other sun
>  machines on the same network.

	That is not anything remotely related to proof.  You could have a 
different version of named running and resolving queries.

>  ALso if I run the named process with no named.conf
>  file in /etc  the process runs.Does that mean the
>  named process is looking for named.conf elsewhere or
>  it isn't looking at all??

	Actually, this is pretty good proof that /etc/named.conf isn't 
being used at all, and that means that the version of named you've 
got running is almost certainly based on some pre-historic version of 
BIND 4, and absolutely *NOT* BIND 8.

	IMO, the best thing to do is to remove /etc/named.boot (which is 
what BIND 4 uses), and remove any binary with the name "in.named". 
Then rebuild and install BIND 8 (preferably 8.2.4), or even better 
yet, BIND 9 (specifically 9.1.2).

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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