[How to] How to upgrade BIND manually.

Article ID: 5542 
Last Review: Oct,6 2008
Author: Kichigin Aleksey
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  • Parallels Plesk for Windows

Resolution

1. Go to site http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/index.php and download desirable version of BIND for Windows, e.g.

   http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2/BIND9.4.2-P2.zip

2. Unzip it;

3. Stop BIND service (Plesk Name Server service);

4. Copy the following set of unzipped files to %plesk_dir%\dns\bin folder:

    Do not overwrite files you have, copy them somewhere for backup purposes.


      BINDInstall.exe
      dig.exe
      dnssec-keygen.exe
      dnssec-signzone.exe
      host.exe
      named-checkconf.exe
      named-checkzone.exe
      named-compilezone.exe
      nslookup.exe
      nsupdate.exe
      rndc-confgen.exe
      rndc.exe
      libbind9.dll
      libeay32.dll

    Add psaadmin, psaserv and psacln groups in security for each files and configure permissions as follows:

      psaadmin - allow read & execute
      psaserv     - deny all
      psacln       - deny all


5. Copy the following files to C:\Windows\system32 folder:

    Do not overwrite files you have, copy them somewhere for backup purposes.

      bindevt.dll
      libdns.dll
      libisccc.dll
      libisccfg.dll
      libisc.dll
      liblwres.dll

    Add psaadmin, psaserv and psacln groups in security for each files and configure permissions as follows:

      psaadmin - allow read & execute
      psaserv     - allow read & execute
      psacln       - allow read & execute

6. Start BIND service (Plesk Name Server service).
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