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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 12:49:21 +0930

Re: BIND 8/9 Compatibility

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:36:42PM +0930, Andrew Reid wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at upgrading BIND from 8.2.3 to 9.1, and thought I'd do the
> sensible thing and look before I leap :-)
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows weather my config files, zone records
> etc are going to need changes made to them to make them compatible with
> 9.1. I would have thought that they'd be pretty much the same,
> compatible but I'm not sure.

Andrew, 

I tried it a few weeks ago, and it was so much work, I installed
8.2.3 on my machines instead.

The easy things were:

-	Add the line
	$TTL    86400
	at the top of each zone file.

-	Most of the /etc/named.conf options are no longer valid,
	but they are just ignored.

The difficult thing for me was the fact that the RAM required
seemed to be 5 times as much as for 8.2.3.
9.1 also uses a big heap of disk space.
That was an issue on my old name server machine (which I am now
taking 3-4 weeks to convert over to a new machine with a shiny
new linux OS.) 

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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