Re: New BIND 4 & 8 Vulnerabilities

["Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>]

> > I have a very straight setup but upgrading to bind 9 was done in under
> > 4 seconds.  (approx 50 domains). no troubles so far.
>
> yep, bind 9.2.x seems a lot better than 9.0 or 9.1.
>
> it seems to use more memory than bind8.
>
>
>
> i'm doing a trial upgrade (on another server by copying over zone files)
> right now.
>
> a few little gotchas (e.g. ownership/perms of zonefiles) , but easily
> fixed.
>
> i'll probably be ready to upgrade my main dns server in an hour or so.
>
> the main thing i'm worried about is that bind9 had enormous memory leaks
> when i tried 9.0 several months ago.  i hope they're fixed now.
>

We're still on named 8.3.3-REL-NOESW (currently in stable).

Is it much of a headache to upgrade to 9.2.x? Any particular procedure or
guide you followed that could be read somewhere?

TIA.