Hello,

we want to upgrade the DNS-daemon BIND on our Sparc / Solaris 9
(Sun-Fire-280R) from BIND 8.x to BIND 9.x.

I would like to know the efforts required for such an upgrade. Is it a
matter of installing a package (found e.g. on
http://www.sunfreeware.com/) and restarting the service? Or is it more
complicated requiring to install/recompile many other libraries?

Thanks in advance!
Loïc Domaigné.

loic-dev@gmx.net writes:
>we want to upgrade the DNS-daemon BIND on our Sparc / Solaris 9
>(Sun-Fire-280R) from BIND 8.x to BIND 9.x.

>I would like to know the efforts required for such an upgrade. Is it a
>matter of installing a package (found e.g. on
>http://www.sunfreeware.com/) and restarting the service? Or is it more
>complicated requiring to install/recompile many other libraries?

No, no libraries should need touching.

It might be as easy as de-installing the old package, and installing
the new package. The main config file has changed very slightly in a
small number of areas, but you probably won't be affected by it in
most installations.

In article <4394afc5$0$245$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.octanews. com>,
Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> wrote:
>loic-dev@gmx.net writes:
>>we want to upgrade the DNS-daemon BIND on our Sparc / Solaris 9
>>(Sun-Fire-280R) from BIND 8.x to BIND 9.x.
>
>>I would like to know the efforts required for such an upgrade. Is it a
>>matter of installing a package (found e.g. on
>>http://www.sunfreeware.com/) and restarting the service? Or is it more
>>complicated requiring to install/recompile many other libraries?
>
>No, no libraries should need touching.
>
>It might be as easy as de-installing the old package, and installing
>the new package. The main config file has changed very slightly in a
>small number of areas, but you probably won't be affected by it in
>most installations.
>
BIND 9 comes with the utilities 'named-checkconf' and 'named-checkzone'
so you can check the config file ahead of time.
--
Tom Schulz
schulz@adi.com

In article <1134545909.863236.15250@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
<loic-dev@gmx.net> wrote:
>Hello Doug, Hello Thomas,
>
>Thanks for your response.
>
>> >It might be as easy as de-installing the old package, and installing
>> >the new package. The main config file has changed very slightly in a
>> >small number of areas, but you probably won't be affected by it in
>> >most installations.
>> >
>> BIND 9 comes with the utilities 'named-checkconf' and 'named-checkzone'
>> so you can check the config file ahead of time.
>
>I was asked to preserve, if possible, the current chroot-environment of
>BIND. Do I have to perform some changes in the config file, and can I
>just re-use the 8.x one?

I have never used a chroot-environment, so I don't know. The best thing
would be to get the BIND 9 distribution and read the documentation. There
is a very good set of documentation in the doc/arm directory. You would
point a web browser at the Bv9ARM.html file. There is a section on
chroot.

>I will in any case run the named-checkconf and named-checkzone
>utilities...
>
>TIA,
>Loic.
--
Tom Schulz
schulz@adi.com