Long time reader, first time poster :) I've been following the recent thread about BIND. I have upgraded to the latest version, and I am not considering either an upgrade to BIND 9 or switching to djbdns. For those of you who have upgraded from 8.2.3 to 9.x, how difficult was it for you? Did you see a marked improvement in performance? For those of you who have switched from BIND 8.x to djbdns, how difficult was it for you? Are there any how-to's or detailed step-by-step walk through's that describe a reasonably sane way to upgrade? I've read all the docs on djbdns, and once the conversion is done, it looks pretty simple to administer, and work it into some of my automated setup tools. I'm more concerned with the conversion from BIND 8. I've been using DJB's qmail for 3 or 4 years now, so I'm very comfortable with his coding and restrictions, but I don't want to switch just because it's djb. I want to make an informed decision. So, please limit your comments to technical merit, ease of use, etc. This whole hub-bub about the security notifications, etc. is very low on my list as a factor in upgrading or changing. Thanks, Dave Weiner CTO, WebMasters, Inc. 800-472-9203 http://www.webmast.com
For those of you who have upgraded from 8.2.3 to 9.x, how difficult was it for you? Did you see a marked improvement in performance?
BIND 9 is not yet supposed to be faster unless you are using multiple processors. BIND 9.1 has made significant improvements in speed, and more are expected for 9.2. No problems experienced in any fashion with upgrading. -- Joe Rhett Chief Technology Officer JRhett@ISite.Net ISite Services, Inc. PGP keys and contact information: http://www.noc.isite.net/Staff/
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:17:46PM -0500, Dave 'Duke of URL' Weiner wrote:
For those of you who have switched from BIND 8.x to djbdns, how difficult was it for you? Are there any how-to's or detailed step-by-step walk through's that describe a reasonably sane way to upgrade? I've read all the docs on djbdns, and once the conversion is done, it looks pretty simple to administer, and work it into some of my automated setup tools. I'm more concerned with the conversion from BIND 8.
Well, I performed a quick-n-dirty conversion in about 15 minutes by grepping all of the domains for which we were the master server out of the named.conf file and using a simple shell script to run axfr-get for each of those domains. Then I cat'd (catted?) those files together, ran 'sort -u' on it and ran tinydns-data on the result. Voila! I also through together a Python script to clean it up and organize it a bit. That made it a bit easier to maintain. That provided a useable server, but we're working on a way to manage it all from a sql database with a CGI frontend. Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte@emt-p.org -- The Matrix
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