[plug] BIND suprise in RH5.2

[Kent Ian]

>While configuring a DNS this morning, on a freshly-installed RedHat 5.2
>system, I was startled when named didn't pick up /etc/named.boot at
>all... man named... Oooh, default file is now /etc/named.conf...
>examining (by now quite wary)... and the format is totally different...

RH5.1 uses BIND-4.
BIND-8 has been out since May 97 (ref www.isc.org). ISC have depreciated BIND-4 
and are recommending people adopt BIND-8.

Ian Kent