DNS and BIND, 5th Edition

Appendix C. Compiling and Installing BIND on Linux

The versions of BIND shipped with most versions of Linux are fairly recent. Still, BIND 8.4.7 is the most current BIND release (at the time of this writing), and the ISC recommends that you upgrade to BIND 9. For those of you who can’t wait until your version of Linux updates to the latest version of BIND 8 or 9, this appendix will show you how to do it yourself.

Instructions for BIND 8

Compiling and installing the latest version of BIND 8 is easy. (Because the path to BIND 8 includes following the link bind-8, you will always get the latest version.) The following sections provide detailed instructions.

Get the Source Code

First, you must get the source code. There’s a copy on ftp.isc.org, available for anonymous FTP:

%cd /tmp
% ftp ftp.isc.org.
Connected to isrv4.pa.vix.com.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.0 Server (ISC FTP Server) [ftp.isc.org]
Name (ftp.isc.org.:user): ftp
331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

Now you need to find the right file:

ftp >cd /isc/bind/src/cur/bind-8
250 CWD command successful.
ftp > binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp > get bind-src.tar.gz local: bind-src.tar.gz remote: bind-src.tar.gz 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for bind-src.tar.gz (1600504 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 1600504 bytes received in 23 seconds (56 Kbytes/s) ...