Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

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The conf file from bind 8.2.3+ should work with bind9 without problem.
Where most people ran into problems upgrading from bind8x to bind9x was
with the zone files.  they had to be much more meticulous and you could
not have multiple cnames.  you can get a perfectly constructed zone file
for a bind9 server from a bind8 server by running the dig command on the
server.

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, JW wrote:

>At 09:39 AM 10/19/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>>On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:22:14PM -0700, linux John wrote:
>>> no problem :-)
>>>
>>> http://www.woz.org/pages/staff/auri/dns/
>
>Ok, I should have clearly said BIND9, not "DNS"... forgive me
>
>>>
>>If you want some example files of a local DNS setup that works, and
>>deals sensibly with a provider's name servers you are welcome to
>>see mine.
>
>I would like to see yours. But I need to know if BIND9 takes the same syntax.
>
>If anyone has a BIND9 /etc/named.conf and appropriate zone files they'd be willing to share, could you please send a copy to me?
>
>>It is for Bind8 however.
>><snip>
>>Isn;t there a HOWTO on this ?
>
>Point browser to http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
>Type:  ^f
>Type: BIND[ENTER]
>
>See that there's no HOWTO on bind, specifically. Same for mini-howtos
>
>There is the DNS-HOWTO. It's not simple enough for total newbies, and not detailed enough for serious data mining (at least the section on the conf isn't). Also, it looks like it's for BIND8
>
>I didn't read the "theory" section, maybe I should have, but I don't have time to waste - I need clear cut instructions on editing these files with a certain goal in mind (being the Primary Authoritative Nameserver for 1 domain as a test - in the future it will be all my companies domains.,
>
>The docs that some in the BIND9 package aren't terribly useful for me either
>
>http://localhost/doc/packages/bind9/
>
>>Bind9 is quite new so there may be
>>less begginer's information on it around than Bind8.
>>
>>Be wary of documents on Bind4, the whole syntax of configuration
>>files changed from 4-->8 onwards.
>
>Thanks for the heads up.
>
>And the help.
>
>
>And once again...
>
>1. If anyone has some conf files from a working BIND9 setup, I'd really appreciate be allowed to look at them.
>2. If anyone has a URL for some docs on setting up BIND9 to be the authoritative name server for a domain, I would appreciate it if you'd pass it along.
>
>
>I'm not saying I _cant_ figure it out based on the docs I've got (I've been reading them and will continue to), I was just hoping that someone knew of something better that would save me time ("*shock!* You mean you don't want to waste time? It's valuable!? Oh, the horror! You want *simple* help? A traitor!"  :-)  ).
>
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>Jonathan Wilson
>System Administrator
>
>Cedar Creek Software     http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
>Central Texas IT     http://www.centraltexasit.com
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Chad Whitten
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neXband Communications
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