after 2 years running, i forget to upgrade my mail server to stable version ( wat de f@!#$!!). Not like my others server, My mail server only for backup server (before). So I am not consentrate with it. But now it is also my main server for email. so i must upgrade the version to stable and update other running application on it. Here i write down how to upgrade FreeBSD to stable version.

before you do it, make sure you understand of what you doing and prepare some coffee and "cemilan", coz its take more than 3 hour prosess ( depend on your computer resource and bandwidth)

Bismillahirohmanirohim…..

first, lets check my mail server version
mail# uname -a
FreeBSD mail.pagongxx.xxx.xx 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 16 14:26:49 WIT 2007 bimo@mail.pagongxx.xxx.xx:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KERNEL1 i386
mail#
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Last night, i help pak cancer install DNS server for Disduk ( Dinas kependudukan).He is NOC in dinas Kependudukan. Since all server change to FreeBSD so everything must build from beginning so the DNS. i have long time not install DNS. I dont have any documentation about it also. so today i will write down step by step installing DNS server using Bind9. Just incase if I forget, i can see this manual. Oke..lets begin….

Bismillahirohmanirohim……

1. INSTALL APPLICATION

install bind94
NS1#cd /usr/ports/dns/bind94
NS1#make install clean

cd /etc/named
ee named.conf
—————-begin—————————–
options {
// Relative to the chroot directory, if any
directory “/etc/namedb”;
pid-file “/var/run/named/pid”;
dump-file “/var/dump/named_dump.db”;
statistics-file “/var/stats/named.stats”;
allow-recursion { any; }; —————-> add this line euy
allow-query { any; }; —————-> add this line euy
allow-query-cache { any; }; —————-> add this line euy
listen-on { any; }; —————-> add this line euy

———-edit this line————————————–

forward only; ——–> use this

};

———————–close here———————————–

and also delete unnecesary configuration or example config
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