upgrade named

horio shoichi bugsgrief at bugsgrief.net
Thu Nov 6 17:35:20 PST 2003


On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 08:13:07 -0500 
"Arnason, Arni" <arni.arnason at eds.com> wrote:
> 
> 8.3.3 is in /usr/sbin
> 9 went into /usr/local/sbin
> 
> modified rc.conf to point to the
> new binary 
> named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
> 
> but I'm still stuck with 8.3.3
> 
> ps shows my named up and running but a 
> which named still points to my 8.3.3 version
> 
> doesn't make sense to me, should be working
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> Arni
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wes Zuber [mailto:wes at uia.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 05 November, 2003 14:46
> To: Jonathan Chen
> Cc: 'freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG'; Arnason, Arni
> Subject: Re: upgrade named
> 
> 
> We had the same issue. The named binary on our 8.3.3 set up was in 
> /usr/local/bin When we installed 9 that went into /usr/sbin
> 
> I suspect that you are just calling the old binary.
> 
> --Wes
> 
> On Nov 5, 2003, at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:38:55AM -0500, Arnason, Arni wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 	I've been trying to upgrade named to version 9
> >> 	 but seem to be missing something....
> >>
> >> Currently have: FreeBSD 4.6.2 with named 8.3.3
> >>
> >> downloaded, configured and installed version 9 - updated rc.conf to
> >> point to the new location, rebooted and I'm still running 8.3.3
> >
> > I've got the same setup and it works fine. What's in your /etc/rc.conf
> > and what's the output of "ps ax | grep named"?
> > -- 
> > Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >                  When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.
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To see the running bind version:

	host -t txt -c chaos version.bind

(and the variants of nslookup, dig).

This may not work on 9.x bind correctly, since ) zone file for bind must be
correctly maintained.

Also this may not work if your bind installation prohibits such retrievals.



horio shoichi



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