Search Again: Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 From: Alan Ordway Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Time: 6:35:54 am Do I really NEED any components other than named? So basically I run ./configure, then make, then make install and then I copy the named from /usr/local/sbin to /usr/sbin and replace the named that is there. -- Alan Ordway On Nov 2, 2004, at 6:55 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > If you set --prefix, you must also set a couple of other parameters so > that the new named expects named.conf in /etc, and so that it puts > run/named.pid in /var. There are a number of other parameters you > could set, too (manpage location, info location, etc.). > > Alternatively, just './configure', and then manually install just the > components you want. For example, bin/named/named goes to > /usr/sbin/named. > > Just use the -4 option. That way, if Apple fixes this issue (assuming > you're using Mac OS X), and if you should ever want IPv6 support, you > won't have to recompile. > > Chris Buxton > Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy > Customer Service and Sales Engineer > > At 7:45 PM -0600 11/2/04, Alan Ordway wrote: >> What is the best way to update Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0? Should I add >> a flag "--prefix=/usr" to the ./configure to have the install replace >> the existing build or should I just do the ./configure and then >> change the startup files to point to the /usr/local/sbin/named? >> Also should I build with IPv6 disabled or just put the -4 in the >> params to fix the IPv6 problem with the root servers? >> >> Alan Ordway >> IHMC > >

Messages In This Thread: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 2, 2004 at 5:47:39 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 2004 at 5:58:41 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 3, 2004 at 6:35:54 am Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 3, 2004 at 10:54:21 am Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 4, 2004 at 8:18:32 am Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 10:24:20 am Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 4, 2004 at 12:18:04 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 1:27:49 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 4, 2004 at 2:18:46 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 2:44:00 pm