Search Again: Re: A couple questions From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, September 19, 2003 Time: 8:04:10 am If you want to update from Bind 8 to Bind 9 without waiting for the QuickDNS 4.6 release, read this knowledge base article: <http://kbase.menandmice.com/view.html?rec=19> ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 5:06 PM -0600 9/18/03, Dan Farmer wrote: >you can download source for the latest BIND (which already includes >the new delegation-only zone type which fixes the verisign lunacy) >from the following page, or directly from the ftp link: > >http://isc.org/products/BIND/bind9-beta.html >ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.2.3rc2/bind-9.2.3rc2.tar.gz > >If you are running QuickDNS 4.5.1 you probably installed BIND 8.3.6, >which came with it. A quick 'named -v' will tell you. > >For the delegation-only zones, you'll add an entry like such: > >zone "cc" { > type delegation-only; >}; > >You can download a this file: >http://www.clubneon.com/files/named.delegation-only >and include it in named.conf to make all current gTLD's behave >properly. But as Men and Mice pointed out, you can't yet use this >with QuickDNS. QuickDNS will try to startup, and will exit with this >error to your system.log file: (if you try, as I obviously did) > >Sep 18 10:59:20 Dan-Farmer QuickDNS Remote[15445]: Unknown type for >zone "com" - bailing out. >Sep 18 10:59:20 Dan-Farmer QuickDNS Remote[15445]: Unable to read >configuration. > >Dan Farmer >Phone Directories Company, Inc. > >On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 04:35 PM, Ron Smith wrote: > >>How do update BIND (I think I have 8.3.4 )? Will that be a part of >>4.6 or 4.5.1? >> >>Also, will there be a way to configure the DNS so that we can stop >>the same Verisign lunacy with the .cc domain (I think there are >>others also that use wildcard domains)?

Messages In This Thread: A couple questions by Dan Farmer on Sep 18, 2003 at 2:00:04 pm Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 18, 2003 at 2:49:19 pm Re: A couple questions by Ron Smith on Sep 18, 2003 at 3:37:05 pm Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 18, 2003 at 3:46:04 pm Re: A couple questions by Dan Farmer on Sep 18, 2003 at 4:08:02 pm Re: A couple questions by Ron Smith on Sep 18, 2003 at 5:00:21 pm Re: A couple questions by Len Conrad on Sep 18, 2003 at 9:34:46 pm Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 19, 2003 at 8:04:10 am Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 19, 2003 at 8:08:31 am Re: A couple questions by Men & Mice Support on Sep 19, 2003 at 8:13:17 am Re: A couple questions by Len Conrad on Sep 19, 2003 at 8:33:44 am