Bind 9.9 major changes

Bind 9.9 is just about to come out and I wanted to point out 1 major issue that VM might break with DNS.

By default when Bind 9.9 is installed it will convert all existing text formated zone files to a raw binary format for faster processing. This of course will throw a monkey wrench in how VM reads and writes zone changes.

Please read the following 2 sites that explain what will happen and how to prevent zone files from being converted to binary or VM will have to use a CLI to switch a zone file from binary to text on the file but I prefer the named.conf.options fix my self which is adding the line to that file which is masterfile-format text;

But you should still read up on this major change. I'm already on a debian backport version of 9.8 so for me its just around the corner.

http://geekdom.wesmo.com/2014/06/05/bind9-dns-slave-file-format/
http://lists.redbarn.org/pipermail/dnsfirewalls/2012-December/000154.html

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