... so I'm now working from home, and I wanted to set up my SuSE 6.0
workserver to be a server for the websites I'll be developing, and I new
I wanted to set up a DNS server to provide a local private domain for
the home network - and in addition have virtual hosts in Apache.
I've already got my own-cooked Apache, as I've mentioned before.
... So I went to the howtos in /usr/doc and found the how-to on setting
up DNS, and it seemed to be exactly what I was looking for except, what
should I find but that SuSE 6.0 installs named BIND-4, and the how-to is
for BIND-8 which is *substantially* different. Completely different
configuration file format. As the link to the BIND-4 how-tos was dead, I
had no choice but to install BIND-8.
Thankfully, this happened quite easily, after all my trepidation about
fiddling with something so fundamental. I downloaded the BIND-8.1.2
sources and followed the instructions to compile and install it, and it
works perfectly. (Imagine my annoyance when a few *hours* later BIND-8.2
was released!) I had to adapt a bit to get reality close enough to the
how-to examples for me to continue and do the *new* stuff, but the
initial conversion using the named.boot to named.conf converter given
worked perfectly. The only fly in the ointment is that I still only have
the BIND-4 man pages.
But anyway, apparently BIND-8 is The Thing these days, more secure etc.,
and definitely a nicer file format to work with, and even I managed to
get it working without much pain and I'm hardly a guru (yet :-}). So why
does SuSE still go with BIND-4? (And only provide how-tos on BIND-8?)
--
Rachel
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