[34373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BIND 9 vs djbdns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Beuchler)
Sat Feb 3 23:42:52 2001
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 21:18:11 -0600
From: Ben Beuchler <insyte@emt-p.org>
To: "Dave 'Duke of URL' Weiner" <davew@webmast.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <016f01c08e2f$246ffce0$0200a8c0@webmast.com>; from davew@webmast.com on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:17:46PM -0500
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:17:46PM -0500, Dave 'Duke of URL' Weiner wrote:
> For those of you who have switched from BIND 8.x to djbdns, how difficult was it for
> you? Are there any how-to's or detailed step-by-step walk through's that describe a
> reasonably sane way to upgrade? I've read all the docs on djbdns, and once the
> conversion is done, it looks pretty simple to administer, and work it into some of my
> automated setup tools. I'm more concerned with the conversion from BIND 8.
Well, I performed a quick-n-dirty conversion in about 15 minutes by
grepping all of the domains for which we were the master server out of
the named.conf file and using a simple shell script to run axfr-get for
each of those domains. Then I cat'd (catted?) those files together, ran
'sort -u' on it and ran tinydns-data on the result. Voila! I also
through together a Python script to clean it up and organize it a bit.
That made it a bit easier to maintain.
That provided a useable server, but we're working on a way to manage it
all from a sql database with a CGI frontend.
Ben
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