I tried to load Sol 10 on IBM and it was no go, loaded 11 Dev no problem except I had to also add the Broadcom drivers to get the NICS up.
I think that 10 and 11 use BIND 9, but I have been told that I must use BIND 8 for my project.
Any info on how to go from BIND 9 to BIND 8 on Sol 11 Dev edition would be appreciated.
Thanks
Bind 8 is seriously old and unsupported. Theres really no good reason to be using it..
You should talk to whoever set that requirement and see if you can talk some sense into them.
That being said, its relatively simple to grab the bind 8 sources from http://www.isc.org/bind and compile them to live in /usr/local
You shouldnt try to replace it in the sense that you overwrite the files.
Just compile up your own version in /usr/local. Disable to the standard solaris one and run your own instead.
Its just the usual compilation procedure...
untar it.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/bind
make
make install
You'll have to write a startup script for it from memory..
But bind 9 interoperates with bind 8 just fine.
I'd be surprised if you have any issues running bind 9.
I am not a Solaris person, took me a week to get it loaded, I have messed with CentOS and asterisk pbx a lot.
I am going to ask the specifics on why 8 and not 9, but I know it had something to do with some other software we want to use that will cause the sites primary DNS server to failover to the secondary DNS server.
Right now we do that manually, on these new servers we needed it to happen automatcally, I dont remember the name of the app that was going to do that for us, I will check, but was told it only worked with Bind8
These servers are for Broadsoft PBX and are also the Voice Mail wav file servers via SMTP and POP3 and are DNS servers. 2 boxes per site, one pri one sec, each site has its own DNS and VM, no sharing or failover between sites of VM, but DNS is shared in failover between sites.
