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  From: Michael Kratz <michael_kratz@hotmail.com>
  To  : <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>
        < linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:02:58 +1030

Re: uh oh! -- BIND's no good again - warning, warning

  Thank you for taking the time to post this Nick :-D

  ....Done

Now, anyone, how hard is it to switch from BIND 8.2.3 to BIND 9.1??

is it as simple as this operation was ie. rpm upgrade


Rgrds Michael

>Because I really care, I'm going to give everyone the exact, simple command
>line that will work in 99% of RedHat 6.2 installations to fix this problem.
>
>[as root]
>
># rpm -Uvh 
>ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/redhat/updates/6.2/i386/bind-8.2.3-0.6.x.i386.rpm
>
>I'm not sure if you need to restart named or not..  just in case, I typed:
>
># /etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart
>
>Everyone should do this ASAP, especially if they're in an educational
>institution ;)  The bug is a *bad* one.
>
>Any extra pointers/etc from anyone else appreciated.  Other Linux-based
>os's may vary.  E&OE.  Read at your own risk.  No responsibility taken.
>&c.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Nick
>
>
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