bind9 configuration compatible with named?

[Red Squirrel]

I'm migrating my Debian server to FC5 but I noticed the DNS server is named, and not bind, like on debian. DNS is probably the most complicated thing to setup besides the mail server, so is there a possibility that my bind configuration files will work with named? The syntax looks the same.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Had to do lot of fiddling around, but I managed to migrate it over, so to answer my own question yes it works.

 

[cleverhandle]

"Named" is just a slightly more generic name for the DNS daemon. On most systems, including Fedora last I checked, named = bind. Debian just likes to be specific. Almost certainly, the FC5 named and Debian's bind are both bind9. The configurations probably look quite different - last time I set up a Debian DNS server it had a whole little Debianesque configuation system, whereas RH/FC tends to stick to fewer, larger files with annotations to help the config tools parse them. But under the hood, I'd bet they're exactly alike.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Ohhh so its the same thing, two different names. That could prove to be confusing.