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Replace Aging BIND on Virtual Dedicated Host – Part 1 – Compile BIND 9.5.0-P2

/ September 28, 2016 — Name Resolution and DNS

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    We were checking out the various servers that we administer and noticed that one of our hosts is not up to the latest version of BIND. Yum update wasn’t giving us joy, so we grabbed the latest version of BIND:

    # wget http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz
--07:10:17--  http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0-P2/bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz
Resolving ftp.isc.org... 204.152.184.110, 2001:4f8:0:2::18
Connecting to ftp.isc.org|204.152.184.110|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6627081 (6.3M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz'

100%[=======================================>] 6,627,081   1.75M/s   in 4.3s   

07:10:22 (1.46 MB/s) - `bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz' saved [6627081/6627081]

    What we want to do is see if we can compile on the current host, install in /usr/local so that we don’t interfere with the current version of BIND, then remove the RPMs and get the system set up in the same exact way, with the same exact init script (only slightly different). Just to be safe, we want to make sure that we know where the configuration files are:

    # ls /var/named
chroot  localdomain.zone  named.broadcast  named.ip6.local  named.zero
data    localhost.zone    named.ca         named.local      slaves

    How is named running?

    # ps -ef
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
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named    13407     1  0 Jun16 ?        00:00:04 /usr/sbin/named -u named
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root     17925  9801  0 Jul21 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -ef

    Back up the zones and configuration files:

    # cp /var/named -r /root/
# ls /root/named
chroot  localdomain.zone  named.broadcast  named.ip6.local  named.zero
data    localhost.zone    named.ca         named.local      slaves
# cp /etc/named.conf /root/
# cp /etc/rc.d/init.d/named /root/namedinit

    Let’s get on with the compile. Note that we went through this dance back in 2001, right after Agatha shut down a data center and was unemployed for awhile in this article. This time we are simply hacking on a Fedora Core 6 install, which, by default, has a chrooted configuration. This is better anyway. On a side note, Agatha would like to point out that the last octet on the DNS server used in 2001 was 52:

    100.50.10.in-addr.arpa. 86400   IN      NS      srv-3.signalq.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
srv-3.signalq.com.      86400   IN      A       10.50.100.52

    OK. Maybe this is only a three on the Carl Jung One-to-Ten Synchronicity Meter, but, well, one has to pay attention to these kind of things. Let’s get on to the compile. Extract the tarball, configure, make, install:

    # tar -xzf bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz 
# ls
bind-9.5.0-P2  bind-9.5.0-P2.tar.gz 
# cd bind*2
# ./configure

config.status: creating dst/Makefile
config.status: creating include/Makefile
config.status: creating inet/Makefile
config.status: creating irs/Makefile
config.status: creating isc/Makefile
config.status: creating nameser/Makefile
config.status: creating port_after.h
config.status: creating port_before.h
config.status: creating resolv/Makefile
config.status: creating port/Makefile
config.status: creating port/linux/Makefile
config.status: creating port/linux/include/Makefile
config.status: creating include/isc/platform.h
config.status: creating config.h
# make     making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/make
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/make'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/make'
making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib'
making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc'
making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/include
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/include'
making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/include/isc
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/include/isc'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/include/isc'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/include'
making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/unix
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/unix'
making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/unix/include
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib/isc/unix
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making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/xsl
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/xsl'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/xsl'
making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/doxygen
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/doxygen'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/doxygen'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc'
# 

# make install
making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/make
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/make'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/make'
making all in /usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/lib

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make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/doxygen'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/doxygen'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc'
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin \
	/var/run /etc
/usr/bin/install -c isc-config.sh /usr/local/bin
#

    Verify the version:

    # /usr/local/sbin/named -version
BIND 9.5.0-P2
#

     

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