Re: Bind9.3.5 or 6 on ubuntu

2009-06-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:40:48PM -0500, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote a message of 36 lines which said: I read that it is best for them all to be the same version of bind. Strange assertion. this one needs to be like the rest rather than introducing new unknowns in

Re: Bind9.3.5 or 6 on ubuntu

2009-06-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 200906262140.n5qlemev047...@dc.cis.okstate.edu, Martin McCormick w rites: The present package for bind under ubuntu Linux is bind9.5. This is great and I am not complaining at all but all the rest of our bind servers are FreeBSD and using 9.3.5, soon to be 9.3.6. I read that

Re: Bind9.3.5 or 6 on ubuntu

2009-06-27 Thread Martin McCormick
I wrote: The present package for bind under ubuntu Linux is bind9.5. This is great and I am not complaining at all but all the rest of our bind servers are FreeBSD and using 9.3.5, soon to be 9.3.6. Make that 9.5 now. I failed to catch that 9.3x had died at the end of December.

Re: Getting dynamic entries into their db files

2009-06-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Mark Andrews writes: Have you really thought about this? The correct way to backup the DNS is to use slaves. If all is going well you will only loose a minute or two of changes. You really don't want to roll back to what is in backup tapes. At our

Re: Getting dynamic entries into their db files

2009-06-27 Thread Hauke Lampe
Hello John. Cherney John-CJC030 wrote: [rndc freeze zone] Thanks! I hadn't tried that. I have a problem with that, though. I don't know which of my ~600 zones will or won't have dynamic updates. Well, if there is a .jnl file for a zone, it needs to be flushed. A bit of shell scripting can