Hey, does anyone know how to uninstall BIND 9 and downgrade to BIND 8? I'm needing to add a server, on which I'll be running software that doesn't interact well with BIND 9 when it gets busy. If anyone has a step by step tutorial for this, or can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks-

~gertielertie

Unless you use BIND 9 specific features, it should be a matter of downloading the BIND 8 sources and building them (as per the instructions). You can get the source from www.isc.org.

When you make install, it'll end up in /usr/local. Stop BIND (service named stop on RH), then edit /etc/init.d/named and change the paths/program names to point to the BIND 8 installation in /usr/local. Then service named start.

It's unlikely you can downgrade through RPM, so the source is the way to go. (I've done this kind of thing to upgrade tools like SSH when a security hole was found, so I could get the system upgraded before RedHat came out with an RPM patch)