BIND 9 to BIND 8 downgrade

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Jim McAtee <jmcatee at mediaodyssey.com> wrote:

> Because of the problems with the Win32 port of BIND 9.2, I'm in the midst of
> switching our Win2k BIND 9 nameservers to BIND 8.3.1.  Formerly, we were
> running BIND 4.9, so I'm not completely familiar with the configuration
> differences between BIND 8 and 9.

What is your problems ? 

How about running bind-9 on un*x instead ? 

You _could_ use your old hardware, given free/net/open BSD you could be 
installed & running within a few hours.



> Will master zone files work well if they're unchanged from BIND 9?  A
> typical zone file on our servers looks like the one shown below.  Is the
> $TTL directive recognized by BIND 8.3, or would this zone file have a
> default TTL on records of just 20 minutes?

> $TTL 1d
> @ IN SOA ns1.ourdomain.com. hostmaster.ourdomain.com. (
>                         2001112701  ; serial
>                         4h          ; refresh
>                         30m         ; retry
>                         28d         ; expire
>                         20m       ) ; minimum
>                    7d   IN NS       ns1.ourdomain.com.
>                    7d   IN NS       ns2.ourdomain.com.
>                         IN MX       10 mail.ourdomain.com.
>                         IN MX       20 mail2.ourdomain.com.
>                         IN A        204.138.18.100
> www                     IN A        204.138.18.100


> In the options section of the configuration file, we use at least a couple
> of BIND 9 specific options.  Is there a BIND 8 equivalent to notify-source
> or transfer-source?  When I set up the servers under BIND 9, I believe that
> these options were necessary to make notifies and transfers function when
> running on machines with multiple IP addresses.

> acl "localmachines" {
>   204.138.47.0/25;
>   192.168.1.0/24;
> };

> acl "secondarydns" {
>   216.138.18.101;
>   216.138.18.84;
> };

> options {
>   directory "c:\named";
>   listen-on { 204.138.47.6; };
>   notify-source 204.138.47.6;
>   transfer-source 204.138.47.6;
>   allow-transfer { "localmachines"; "secondarydns"; };
> };

> Thanks,
> Jim



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