Re: Bind upgrade question

[Kris D. <kd...@we...>]

Dale's Lists wrote:
> 
> How about I ask it this way.
> 
> Will I have to re-enter all 250 domains?
> 
> Does anyone knwo what this configuration change is? I figure if the
> up2date won't install it the change is pretty major.
> 
> Backing up doesn't do anything if I have to re-enter and re-configure
> all host files.

BIND 9.x configurations are backwards-compatible down to 8.something.

I updated a RH7.0 box (running BIND 8.2.whatever was current at the
time) to RH7.3 (BIND9.1 [?]), and later to the 7.3 errata (currently
9.2.1), without trouble.

There are new features and capabilities, but your old zone files should
work OK (unless you've got some *very* strange customizations for
BIND).  A stock RH build should be OK.

If you've been running BIND4, you're in trouble- BIND4 zone files are
somewhat different from BIND8/9.  (As is the main configuration file
IIRC.)

-kgd
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