Solaris DNS BIND 8.3.3 Implementation

For your convenience, the Solaris operating environment supplies a compiled version of Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) version 8.3.3. The version of BIND includes security fixes that are part of BIND version 8.3.4. In compiling this software, options and choices were made to meet the needs of the greatest number of sites. If the 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 does not work otherwise.

• Default Domain Name. If the DNS domain name is not set in /etc/resolv.conf, or through the LOCALDOMAIN environment variable, libresolv() derives the DNS domain name 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 dnsquery and host are not included in this Solaris release because their purpose is similar to the purposes of nslookup and nstest.

How to Migrate from BIND 4.9.x to BIND 8.3.3

As of the Solaris 9 release, the named.boot file is ignored.

1. Become superuser.

2. Convert the DNS configuration file.

   Run the Korn shell script, /usr/sbin/named-bootconf, to convert a BIND 4.9.x named.boot file to a BIND 8.3.3 named.conf file.