Solaris DNS BIND 8.2.4 Implementation

For your convenience, the Solaris operating environment supplies a compiled version of Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) version 8.2.4. In compiling this software, options and choices were made to meet the needs of the greatest number of sites. If this pre-compiled version of BIND does not meet your requirements, you can recompile your own version of BIND from the publicly available source code.

In compiling the BIND version supplied with the Solaris operating environment the following choices were made.

• RFC1535. Not implemented because doing so would remove implicit search lists.

• Inverse Queries. Enabled because SunOS 4 nslookup will not work without them.

• Default Domain Name. If the DNS domain name is not set in /etc/resolv.conf, or via the LOCALDOMAIN environment variable, libresolv derives it from the NIS or NIS+ domain name.

• Utility Scripts. The BIND utility scripts are not included in this Solaris release.

• Test Programs. The BIND test programs dig, dnsquery, and host are not included in this Solaris release because their purpose is similar to that of nslookup and nstest.

How to Migrate from BIND 4.9.x to BIND 8.2.4

1. Become superuser.

2. Run the Korn shell script, /usr/sbin/named-bootconf, to convert a BIND 4.9.x named.boot file to a BIND 8.2.4 named.conf file.

In Solaris 9, the named.boot is ignored.