[plug] BIND surprise in RH5.2

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 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...
Don't worry, it's all well worth it. The tradeoffs are some nifty new
features for dynamic updating, a supposed speed increase, and the
theoretical ability for security to be enhanced.
If you have Perl, then it's not a problem.
If you don't have Perl, then you already have problems.

-Greg Mildenhall