Compiling BIND 9
| BIND 9 is both harder and easier to compile than BIND 8. It's harder because it requires an ANSI C compiler (and not all UNIX versions come with one). BIND 9 also uses threads, as implemented with pthreads, and supports IPv6. The quality of the OS thread libraries can vary, and I would expect a shakedown phase both in BIND 9 and the OSs concerned. On the other hand BIND 9 is easier to compile because it is GNU-autoconfigurable. Therefore, if it has already been ported and tested on your OS, everything should be as easy to get working as GNU software usually is. BIND 9.0.0tr5 is reported to build on a number of platforms, as found in the README file:
The README file also contains the compilation instructions. In most cases, it will be this familiar sequence: $ ./configure $ make $ make install It accepts the usual GNU autoconf options and variables, of course, and some BIND 9 specific options. See ./configure --help and in the README file for more information about that. If you have one of the platforms previously listed, you are now quite likely to have BIND 9 installed. It is started, stopped, and configured identically to BIND 8. But ndc has been replaced with rndc, which requires configuration. I will return to that later in this chapter. You might want to take a look at the CHANGES file, where you will find the added and changed functionality, as well as fixed bugs. |
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