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ISC BIND 9 can be downloaded from the ISC FTP-Server at ftp.isc.org.
The software comes in a Tarball-archive compressed with GZIP and is about 4.500 Kbytes in size.
The archive can be extracted using the following command:
 tar xfz bind-9.x.x.tar.gz
We recommend to create a "build"-directory or use the /tmp directory to extract the archive there.
- Compilation of the Bind sourcecode
The easiest and recommended way to compile the software (according to the README) is to use the commands:
 /configure; make; make install
To configure the ORSN servers had done or will do the following:
 ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-threads --with-openssl --enable-ipv6 --enable-libbind
 make install
After successfull compilation of the software you should find a binary called named in the directory /usr/sbin/
Additional tools for signing DNS zones and controlling of the Bind 9 can be found under /usr/bin/
Further details regarding installation of the Bind 9 software can be found in the included README file.
- Configuration (named.conf)
The following configuration is an example of the settings used for the ORSN root servers. The orginal files are
also containing some details regarding DNSSEC and some more information.
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