On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:47:33 +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:

> But it still supported the old format for backward compatibility.

Yes, and with that ttl statement, the same zone files are used in BIND-9.

>>BIND-8.2 -> BIND-9 required the addition of the rndc key stuff to
>>named.conf along with /etc/rndc.conf. The zone files were the same.
>
> Does it really *require* it? I haven't done any BIND 9 configuration
> myself, and our servers all have this stuff in their configuration, but I
> assumed it has defaults for when it's not supplied.

I've been running BIND-9 since it was first released; got tired of chasing
root holes in BIND-8, and Sun released Solaris 8 with BIND-8.2.2p5 with a
known root hole although they 'may' have patched it.

I could not get named to start without the rndc stuff in named.conf. But
it was simple enough to get rndc configured and the proper lines and key
in named.conf.