Upgrading Bind

[Jonathan Chen]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:53:54PM -0400, questions wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> 	Current O/S version = FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE
> 	Current Bind version = named 8.3.7-REL
> 
> 	Does anyone know if upgrading Bind/named 8.3.7 to 9.3 is
> recommended within 4.10-RELEASE? If so can this be accomplished using the
> portupgrade command or should a different method be used like downloading
> bind9.tar.gz file and running make install?

What I did was:

    # cd /usr/ports/dns/bind9
    # make install clean

and updated /etc/rc.conf with

    named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"

worked fine for me. I chose not to overwrite the system's version.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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