Has anyone successfully configured Bind 9 or 9.1 on their RaQ?

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/ Says that you SHOULD upgrade to Bind 9.1, which is a step up from 8.2.3..

I installed it, but when running named -v it still shows 8.2.3

Please post instructions on doing this, if you have, as it is an important thing for all RaQ owners.

Thanks,
Brandon

Althought this wasn't on a rack, when I upgraded from BIND 8.x to 9.x, I noticed that it put the executable in a seperate directory. Running your old startup script for BIND 8.x would in fact run the 8.x executable rather then the 9.x executable.

Do a search on your system to see if you have more then one executable for BIND. Try the following command:

find / -name named

Hope that helps.

I do have multiples...how do I make sure that 9.1 is running?

Thanks,
Brandon

First off, you should test to see which version of bind is installed where.

Do:
/path/to/bind/named -v
on both of the executables. One will say its Bind 9.1.

Kill your current bind. I think on linux its

ps -aux|grep named

Then use kill to kill the PID of named (PID is a number). i.e. If the PID is 123, do:

Kill 123

Then, run the proper Bind. Do:

/path/to/bind/named &

Thats it. You may want to update your startup scripts also to point to the right version of bind.

Hope that helps.

normally what scripts would you have to update?

bind 9.1 is DoS-able.
Try bind 9.1.1rc2 instead.

Originally posted by vizi
First off, you should test to see which version of bind is installed where.

Do:
/path/to/bind/named -v
on both of the executables. One will say its Bind 9.1.

Kill your current bind. I think on linux its

ps -aux|grep named

Then use kill to kill the PID of named (PID is a number). i.e. If the PID is 123, do:

Kill 123

Then, run the proper Bind. Do:

/path/to/bind/named &

Thats it. You may want to update your startup scripts also to point to the right version of bind.

Hope that helps.

Couldn't you just copy over the old version of bind? I mean if the raq reboots under this it will load up the old version any way.

Also bind 9.1.1rc2 is a "BIND 9.1.1 Release Candidate" which unless I'm mistaken means that it has not reach the stable realm yet. Is that so or am I mistaken?

[Edited by tymonhall on 02-26-2001 at 11:37 AM]