[bind10-dev] BIND 10 installation experience - done

[Elmar K. Bins]

Hi guys,

I just installed BIND10, got it to somehow work (one problem remains for me, see
below), and thought I'd write up a report...

Since I like playing around and failed to dare take a BIND10 into production on a
different box, I thought I would try my new virtual server. Here's my experience:

Starting out with a v4 and v6 enabled vr.org virtual server at:
Linux tikka.4ever.de 2.6.32-307-ec2 #12-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 18 10:22:23 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux


Since that's not really a complete development environment, and not overly current,
the following things really need to be installed before running configure:

apt-get install g++
apt-get install python3-all
apt-get install python3-all-dev
apt-get install pkg-config
apt-get install sqlite3
apt-get install libsqlite3-0
apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
apt-get install libboost-all-dev


Then finally ./configure said I might now use make, which I did. And "make install".

Starting bind10, this wretched thing started complaining about all kinds of
libs missing, and as I was starting to go crazy and shout at Shane (who was
close by for convenience), I thought better and ran "ldconfig". That helped,
so don't forget that.

Cool, software running and listening on localhost/53.

Next thing of course was to load a (current BIND9 style) zonefile which failed:

  root at tikka:# b10-loadzone ~ekb/4ever.de
  Error reading zone file: Cannot parse RR: 4ever.de. IN SOA ns.4ever.de. hostmaster.4ever.de. 2010111400 10000 5000 864000 36000


Well - don't know what's wrong here. BIND9 (and 8) loads this.

Well, let's try slaving the zone from the actual master:

  root at tikka:# bindctl
  ["login success "] login as root
  > Xfrin retransfer zone_name="4ever.de" master=195.34.187.4
  send the command to cmd-ctrld
  received reply: "zone xfrin is started"
  > quit

  root at tikka:# dig @localhost -p 5300 4ever.de soa

  [...]

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;4ever.de.                      IN      SOA

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  4ever.de.               345600  IN      SOA     ns.4ever.de. hostmaster.4ever.de. 2010111400 10000 5000 864000 36000

  [...]


So this part works.

Actually, had I not been such an ignorant, it would have been pretty fast; so I had to try
Shane's patience and fiddle too much for my own good.

I'll slave a few more zones there, change the listen port, and see how the beast behaves
in production.

Cheers,
	Elmar.

PS: All in all, the process is quite pleasant, provided you know how to handle all
    these system issues (or know someone who does). The most difficult part was
    finding out about libboost.

    I also believe the guide could use a bit more details on actual installation
    processes, since the stuff you need to have is sometimes a bit obscure, and
    if something does not work, you usually don't know where to look with that
    new piece of software.

    Still, very good work so far, thanks :)

-- 

"Machen Sie sich erst einmal unbeliebt. Dann werden Sie auch ernstgenommen."
							     (Konrad Adenauer)

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