Upgrading from 9.8.3 to 9.9.4

[Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.]

On 01/16/14 16:39, Mike Hoskins (michoski) wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Bernhardt <bernhardt at bart.gov>
> Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014 4:09 PM
> To: "bind-users at lists.isc.org" <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
> Subject: RE: Upgrading from 9.8.3 to 9.9.4
> 
>> Sorry for the double post, but I forgot to ask this:
>> And if it is indeed enabled regardless of my RFC1918 ranges, I would
>> imagine
>> that for my internal servers which have those ranges, I would want to add
>> "disable-empty-zone ".";" to my global options? And for my external-facing
>> server which of course has no RFC1918, I would leave it to the default
>> setting?
> 
> 
> You don't have to do this.  BIND won't enable the empty zone if you
> already have it defined.
> 
> 

The problem I was referring to is mentioned in the feedback to this KB
article:

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00803/0/Why-are-queries-for-some-PTR-records-no-longer-forwarded-since-upgrading-to-BIND-9.9.0.html

Though, from 9.9.4 Release Notes, that's probably addressed by this bug fix:

Fix forwarding for  forward only "zones" beneath automatic empty zones.
[RT #34583]


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