9.3.0 install error

Re: 9.3.0 install error

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Chris this what gives me this error too:

[primary:~] root# cd /downloads/bind-9.3.0
[primary:/downloads/bind-9.3.0] root# ./configure
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for ranlib... :
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for ar... no
configure: error:
ar program not found. Please fix your PATH to include the directory in
which ar resides, or set AR in the environment with the full path to ar.

Where would I set the correct path? This is on 10.2.8-

Jim

On Nov 4, 2004, at 9:14 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:

> What command gives this error? Do you have the developer tools
> installed?
>
> If you don't have the Apple developer tools installed, download that
> from Apple and install it first, then try again.
>
> On my system, ar is located in /usr/bin, which is always in the PATH
> on Mac OS X.
>
> Chris Buxton
> Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
> Customer Service and Sales Engineer
>
> At 4:46 PM -0800 11/4/04, Jody McAlister wrote:
>> Following the instructions, I get this error. this is my desktop
>> (setup the same way as the dns servers). I'm trying it here first.
>>
>> configure: error:
>> ar program not found. Please fix your PATH to include the directory
>> in
>> which ar resides, or set AR in the environment with the full path to
>> ar.
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>>
>>> Sure. I'm going to assume you're currently using BIND 9.2.x.
>>>
>>> - Download the source code for BIND 9.3.0 from the ISC.org website.
>>> Decompress the archive.
>>> - Open a shell (e.g. a Terminal window) and cd to the directory. For
>>> example, if you download with normal web browser settings on Mac OS
>>> X and decompress using Stuffit Expander, you can most likely use
>>> this command:
>>>
>>> cd ~/Desktop/bind-9.3.0
>>>
>>> - Execute the following to compile and install:
>>>
>>> ./configure
>>> make
>>> sudo -s
>>> mv /usr/sbin/named /usr/sbin/named-9.2
>>> cp bin/named/named /usr/sbin/named
>>>
>>> - Continue with the following to test (involves a little downtime
>>> for your server):
>>>
>>> killall named && /usr/sbin/named -4 -g
>>>
>>> This opens the new copy in a debugging mode. See if there are any
>>> error messages. When you're satisfied, type control-c to stop it,
>>> then execute this to start it normally:
>>>
>>> /usr/sbin/named -4
>>>
>>> If you see any problems during the debug mode session, fix them. If
>>> you can't, revert to the old version:
>>>
>>> /usr/sbin/named-9.2
>>>
>>> - Exit root mode:
>>>
>>> exit
>>>
>>> - If the new version works for you, modify your boot script (on Mac
>>> OS X, that's /Library/StartupItems/QuickDNS/named; on FreeBSD, it's
>>> your normal operating system boot script for named) to include the
>>> -4 parameter for launching named.
>>>
>>> Chris Buxton
>>> Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
>>> Customer Service and Sales Engineer
>>>
>>> At 6:36 PM -0500 11/4/04, John May wrote:
>>>> Chris -
>>>>
>>>> Can you repost these instructions?
>>>>
>>>> - John
>>>>
>>>>> Explicit instructions for compiling version 9.3.0 are included in
>>>>> the other message thread. If you need more help than that, feel
>>>>> free to contact me off-list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris Buxton
>>>>> Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
>>>>> Customer Service and Sales Engineer
>>>>>
>>>>> At 1:58 PM -0800 11/4/04, Jody McAlister wrote:
>>>>>> I have version 9.2.3. I see other threads on how to upgrade so
>>>>>> I'll read those. But I'm a unix newbie so compiling and such is
>>>>>> out of my league.
>>>>>> On Nov 4, 2004, at 11:42 AM, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What version of named do you have? Apparently, this option is
>>>>>>> only available with version 9.3.0 and later.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can find out your version with this command:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> named -v
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chris Buxton
>>>>>>> Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
>>>>>>> Customer Service and Sales Engineer
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At 10:35 AM -0800 11/4/04, Jody McAlister wrote:
>>>>>>>> I've tried this on two seperate machines , (10.3.2 & 10.3.5)
>>>>>>>> and QDNS 4.6.1. It kills bind everytime I put the -4 in the
>>>>>>>> Params setting as instructed below. As soon as I remove it,
>>>>>>>> all starts up just fine.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Nov 1, 2004, at 1:51 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We're working along these same lines, but initial tests have
>>>>>>>>> not been uniformly positive.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If you want to try this as described, a few changes will be
>>>>>>>>> required to work within the framework provided by QuickDNS.
>>>>>>>>> I'm going to assume you're using QuickDNS 4.6.1, since if
>>>>>>>>> you're using an earlier version either you need to update (for
>>>>>>>>> free if you're using version 4.5 or later), or you're probably
>>>>>>>>> not having this problem (since you're using BIND 8).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Instead of modifying /System/Library/StartupItems/BIND/BIND,
>>>>>>>>> you'll need to modify /Library/StartupItems/QuickDNS/named.
>>>>>>>>> Look for a line like this, near the top:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> PARAMS=""
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Add -4 inside the quotes, like this:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> PARAMS="-4"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This takes care of settings for both starting and restarting.
>>>>>>>>> To activate it, simply execute this (with root privileges):
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> /Library/StartupItems/QuickDNS/named restart
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Chris Buxton
>>>>>>>>> Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
>>>>>>>>> Customer Service and Sales Engineer
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> At 2:18 PM -0800 11/1/04, Jody McAlister wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> The mac os x server list just posted this message regarding
>>>>>>>>>> dns lookups. they've been basically having the same thread
>>>>>>>>>> that we had last week.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I haven't tried it yet. I'm posting so maybe men and mice
>>>>>>>>>> can confirm before I start playing with my server.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> **************************************************************
>>>>>>>>>> *******************************************************
>>>>>>>>>> (Copied message begins here...)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A more complex, but more reliable fix MacFixIt reader Ken has
>>>>>>>>>> discovered a clever workaround that involves modifying the
>>>>>>>>>> operation of Mac OS X's "named" daemon -- the DNS server that
>>>>>>>>>> is part of the BIND set of UNIX DNS utilities.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The theory behind why this fix works is as follows: root
>>>>>>>>>> domain servers appear to have recently been given IPv6
>>>>>>>>>> capability, and are now returning AAAA records in response to
>>>>>>>>>> name lookups.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Ken writes "The simple upshot is that for whatever reason,
>>>>>>>>>> the first time named tries to go do a DNS query, it seems to
>>>>>>>>>> decide to try sending to an IPV6 server address, which is
>>>>>>>>>> pretty much guaranteed to fail for most users. Eventually
>>>>>>>>>> this times out and it retries, but by that time Safari has
>>>>>>>>>> usually given up on resolving the address and you get an
>>>>>>>>>> error. The second time you try it, the correct address has
>>>>>>>>>> already been cached by the system and everything works.
>>>>>>>>>> "I found that a very simple fix (if you don't mind editing OS
>>>>>>>>>> config files) was to modify the
>>>>>>>>>> /System/Library/StartupItems/BIND/BIND file to add the '-4'
>>>>>>>>>> option to named, which forces it to only use IPV4. For
>>>>>>>>>> example, the first part of the file normally looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> StartService ()
>>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>>> if [ "${DNSSERVER:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then
>>>>>>>>>> ConsoleMessage "Starting named"
>>>>>>>>>> named
>>>>>>>>>> fi
>>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I changed the above to:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> StartService ()
>>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>>> if [ "${DNSSERVER:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then
>>>>>>>>>> ConsoleMessage "Starting named"
>>>>>>>>>> named -4
>>>>>>>>>> fi
>>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "You should probably do the same thing for the RestartService
>>>>>>>>>> section in the file. You'll either need to restart named by
>>>>>>>>>> hand with the new option, or simply reboot your system to
>>>>>>>>>> have the above take effect (probably the safest thing to do).
>>>>>>>>>> I haven't yet tried digging into the BIND code deeply enough
>>>>>>>>>> to determine why it seems to favor IPV6 address over and over
>>>>>>>>>> again even though it never gets a valid response. It appears
>>>>>>>>>> as though there is some code within BIND to sort the servers
>>>>>>>>>> on response time, but IPV6 servers seem to always wind up at
>>>>>>>>>> the front of the list."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
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>>>> Point In Space Internet Solutions jmay@pointinspace.com
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