Re: OT bind 4 -> 9 migration

[Marco Peereboom <slash@peereboom.us>]

It isn't complicated at all :-)
Just *a lot*

On Monday 01 September 2003 01:57 pm, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> I ran bind 4 as a caching, forwarding only service on an OpenBSD 3.1
> firewall it's not real difficult to migrate to bind 9 IMHO. I did this
> when I finally upgraded to 3.3. I found there were plenty of example
> configuration files included with bind 9 that helped guide my
> migration. Since you managed to configure bind 4 you shouldn't have
> that many problems getting bind 9 to work.
>
> Tony
>
> On Monday 01 September 2003 10:09 am, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > I have not updated my firewall since 3.2 because I did not want to
> > deal with bind 9 yet. Yesterday I installed a box for a friend and
> > (finally) saw the latest pf version at work. I was amazed that
> > something that was already awesome became quite a bit more awesome. I
> > especially loved the sample pf.conf with all the new features
> > mentioned with examples; oh and not to forget inetd.conf! I was able
> > to install the firewall in minutes because of the included files. PF
> > rocks!
> >
> > Anyway, on my own firewall I run bind and I need to translate my
> > config files to bind 9. Does anyone know of a tool that converts bind
> > 4 files into bind 9?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > /marco