Getting and Installing BIND

	Edward Lewis
	edlewis@arin.net

Overview

	Retrieving BIND
	Building, Installing BIND
	Mailing Lists

Retrieving BIND

	Internet Software Consortium
	HTTP
	FTP
	Other packages we'll use

Internet Software Consortium

	Source for BIND
	Other Software: DHCP, NNTP
	Under Development: OpenReg (EPP)
	http://www.isc.org

BIND

	Version 8
		In use, available, obsolete
		Don't start to use it
		Migrate to Version 9
		(Okay, BIND 8 is faster than BIND 9)
	Version 9
		Current version
			Release
			Release Candidate (Betas)
			Snapshots (Alphas)
		Never Use Snapshots

Getting BIND 9

	HTTP
		http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
		http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html
			BIND 9.2.1 today
		http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9-beta.html
			BIND 9.2.2.rc1 today
	FTP
		ftp.isc.org - anonymous
		Change Directory to /isc/bind9
			cd 9.2.1
			cd 9.2.2rc1
		ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.2.2rc1/bind-9.2.2rc1.tar.gz

Other Packages

	OpenSSL
		Will be needed for DNSSEC
		Let's wait on that...

Overview

	Retrieving BIND
	Building, Installing BIND
	Mailing Lists

Unpacking BIND9

	tar -xzf bind-9.2.2rc1.tar.gz
		Uncompresses and creates directory
		bind-9.2.2rc1
	What's in there?
		A lot of stuff
		./configure (script)
		./doc/arm/Bv9ARM.html
			Administrator's Reference Manual
			Good source!!!

Building BIND9

	./configure
	make
	sudo make install

What happens

	Executables
		/usr/local/sbin
			dnssec-keygen, dnssec-makekeyset, dnssec-signkey, dnssec-signzone
			lwresd, named-checkconf, named-checkzone
			rndc, rndc-confgen
			named
		/usr/local/bin
			dig
			host, isc-config.sh, nslookup
			nsupdate
	And libraries "happen"

Testing

	Make sure right version is now installed
		named -v

Overview

	Retrieving BIND
	Building, Installing BIND
	Mailing Lists

BIND 9 Mailing Lists

	Joining mail lists
		http://www.isc.org/services/public/lists/bind-lists.html
		bind9-users, bind-announce
		(bind-users is for bind8)
	Archives
		http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/

Questions?