Search Again: Re: QuickDNS 4.5.1.1 patch or change mail servers From: John May Date: Friday, October 3, 2003 Time: 7:27:12 am Jim - Thanks for the input. Guess we'll wait for 4.6 =/ - John >A bit of advise- if you are not a unix hound believe me, this >installation is not worth the trouble for the results gained (from >somebody who learned the hard way). > >Don't panic, relax, breath deeply, and wait for the M&M installer. > >If you are not a Unix hound but *are* a masochist and decide to go >ahead with this, don't forget to install the developers toolkit on >all your OSX dns servers or the instructions below won't work. > >Regards > > Jim > >On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 11:27 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > >>At 11:26 AM -0400 10/2/03, John May wrote: >>>>>So this is to say the current 4.5.1.1 version's included BIND >>>>>won't use the delegation-only zone type? We need to wait for >>>>>4.6 for such unless we install our own BIND upgrade? >>>> >>>>Yes. >>> >>> >>>Do you have any instructions on doing so on OS X? Is it a simple >>>build for the newer BIND? >> >>No, I'm afraid we don't have an official list of step-by-step >>instructions. It should be a simple matter of: >> >>- Download the source code and decompress (DON'T USE STUFFIT EXPANDER). >> >>- Follow the instructions that come with it to compile (configure and make). >> >>- Either use the "make install" step and then move the necessary >>items from under /usr/local to the correct locations, or else >>hand-install. >> >>The items to install are: >> >>/usr/sbin/named >>/usr/sbin/named-checkconf >>/usr/sbin/named-checkzone >>/usr/sbin/rndc >>/usr/sbin/rndc-confgen >>/usr/bin/dig >>/usr/bin/host >>/usr/bin/nslookup >> >>Plus any manpages you want. It will install them (as I recall) in >>/usr/local/man/*, but Mac OS X expects manpages to be found under >>/usr/share/man. For example, the manpage for dig should go in: >> >>/usr/share/man/man1/dig.1 >>____________________________________________________________________ >>Chris Buxton Men & Mice >>Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- John May : President <http://www.pointinspace.com> Point In Space Internet Solutions jmay@pointinspace.com LPA Corporate Partner / FSA Associate / ACN Member Lasso 5 + 6 / PHP / MySQL / FileMaker Pro Hosting Now Available!

Messages In This Thread: Re: QuickDNS 4.5.1.1 patch or change mail servers by James Cobb on Oct 1, 2003 at 7:41:38 am Re: QuickDNS 4.5.1.1 patch or change mail servers by John May on Oct 1, 2003 at 10:42:44 am Re: QuickDNS 4.5.1.1 patch or change mail servers by Men & Mice Support on Oct 1, 2003 at 12:10:25 pm Re: QuickDNS 4.5.1.1 patch or change mail servers by John May on Oct 2, 2003 at 8:27:10 am Re: QuickDNS 4.5.1.1 patch or change mail servers by Men & Mice Support on Oct 2, 2003 at 8:28:48 pm Re: QuickDNS 4.5.1.1 patch or change mail servers by James Cobb on Oct 3, 2003 at 7:24:16 am Re: QuickDNS 4.5.1.1 patch or change mail servers by John May on Oct 3, 2003 at 7:27:12 am