Is BIND9 not stable since BIND8 is the default? On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:43, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:25:00PM +0200, Jacob Vennervald Madsen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a FreeBSD 4.8 box which I want to setup as a DNS server. > > By default BIND8 is installed but I want to use BIND9. How do I remove > > the old BIND version? > > The easiest thing to do is install BIND9 from the ports, and set > named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named" in /etc/rc.conf. This won't remove > the version in the base system, but it will cause the newer version to be > started at boot time. > > If you really want to delete the default version, find and delete any > BIND-related files (the packing list for the ports version of BIND8 may be > helpful here) before you install the port of BIND9. You should probably > also set `NO_BIND=true' in /etc/make.conf, so that you don't end up building > them again at your next buildworld. > > I have only attempted this once, though, and found the effort was not > rewarded with any real sense of achievement. > > > It doesn't seem to be a package. > > It's not. It comes as part of the base system. > > Dan > > -- > Daniel Bye > > PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc > PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F > _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > - against HTML, vCards and X > - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ -- Venlig hilsen / Best regards, Jacob Vennervald System Developer Proventum Solutions ApS Tuborg Boulevard 12 2900 Hellerup Denmark Phone: +45 36 94 41 66 Mobile: +45 61 68 58 51
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