Subject: Re: BIND version
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@prez.org>
From: Ryan Ordway <rimsky@gstis.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/02/1999 11:00:48
	Actually, BIND 8 generally includes a script to convert BIND 4.x
named.boot files to the new named.conf format. I would suggest doing this,
as BIND 8 is MUCH nicer than 4 :-)

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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Michael G. Schabert wrote:

> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >	I just did the upgrade to NetBSD 1.4 on my SE30 and I have a
> >question concerning BIND: On previous version of NetBSD, the included BIND
> >was the version 4.x (old fashion BIND file format). Now, with NetBSD 1.4,
> >the BIND version is 8.? with the new BIND file format... My question is:
> >Can I  use the old file format (version 4.x) with the new BIND ??? If not,
> >how can I downgrade to BIND version 4.9 ? I'm not really familiar handling
> >source code so is there a pre-compile package somewhere ???
> 
> Yeah...it's right in the packages system where it should be ;).
> 
> /usr/pkgsrc/net/bind4/
> 
> HTH
> Mike
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