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+1. Compilation and Installation Questions
+
Q: I'm trying to compile BIND 9, and "make" is failing due to files not
being found. Why?
answers to all these questions change how you configure even a caching
name server.
+2. Configuration and Setup Questions
+
Q: Why does named log the warning message "no TTL specified - using SOA
MINTTL instead"?
server fd81:ec6c:bd62::/48 { bogus no; }; // site ULA prefix
server ::/0 { bogus yes; };
+3. Operations Questions
+
Q: How to change the nameservers for a zone?
A: Step 1: Ensure all nameservers, new and old, are serving the same zone
Note: while it is possible to run the addition and removal stages
together it is not recommended.
+4. General Questions
+
Q: I keep getting log messages like the following. Why?
Dec 4 23:47:59 client 10.0.0.1#1355: updating zone 'example.com/IN':
records does not bring names into existence that do not exist in the
unsigned version of the zone.
+5. Operating-System Specific Questions
+
+5.1. HPUX
+
Q: I get the following error trying to configure BIND:
checking if unistd.h or sys/types.h defines fd_set... no
./configure CC=<compiler> ...
+5.2. Linux
+
Q: Why do I get the following errors:
general: errno2result.c:109: unexpected error:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
proc /var/named/proc proc defaults 0 0
+5.3. Windows
+
Q: Zone transfers from my BIND 9 master to my Windows 2000 slave fail.
Why?
Directory "C:\windows\dns\etc";
};
+5.4. FreeBSD
+
Q: I have FreeBSD 4.x and "rndc-confgen -a" just sits there.
A: /dev/random is not configured. Use rndcontrol(8) to tell the kernel to
See also <http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html>.
+5.5. Solaris
+
Q: How do I integrate BIND 9 and Solaris SMF
A: Sun has a blog entry describing how to do this.
<http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/anay/Weblog?catname=%2FSolaris>
+5.6. Apple Mac OS X
+
Q: How do I run BIND 9 on Apple Mac OS X?
A: If you run Tiger(Mac OS 10.4) or later then this is all you need to do:
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