Upgrading Bind

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 08:53:54 PM -0400 questions 
<questions at zeus.davez.org> wrote:
>
> 	Current O/S version = FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE
> 	Current Bind version = named 8.3.7-REL
>
> 	Does anyone know if upgrading Bind/named 8.3.7 to 9.3 is
> recommended within 4.10-RELEASE?

Recommended?  It's more a personal preference thing, isn't it?

 If so can this be accomplished using the
> portupgrade command

No.  Portupgrade will upgrade 8.3 to 8.4.

 or should a different method be used like downloading
> bind9.tar.gz file and running make install?
>
No.  Use the ports.  Make backups of your .conf and .zone files.  Then go 
to /usr/ports/dns/bind8/ and make deinstall.  Then go to 
/usr/ports/dns/bind9/ and make install clean.  Then read the pkg-message 
and follow the instructions in it.  You'll have to enable bind in rc.conf. 
Make sure you *read* the instructions.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu