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From: Neil <neil@corpex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: bind problems and installation
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 10:26:07 +0100
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Hi,

We appear to be using a version of bind 4.8.3 (according to Version.c 
in /usr/src/usr.sbin

I have tried to compile a newer version, but have been unable to get
it to make :-( 

However I thought I'd ask whether FreeBSD bind suffered the same failure
as Sun bind.  When ifconfig is used to allocate multiple IP's to the
same machine, bind will not restart if there are more than 64 IP's
allocated.  Hence to restart bind, the machine must be restarted.

IF this is a problem, has anyone managed to get a newer bind installed
on FreeBSD (I know someone must have), and if so can they give me any
hints as to what extra configurations need changing in the source.

Cheers,

Neil