First, you must get the source code. There’s a copy on ftp.isc.org, available for anonymous FTP:

%cd /tmp
% ftp ftp.isc.org.
Connected to isrv4.pa.vix.com.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.0 Server (ISC FTP Server) [ftp.isc.org]
Name (ftp.isc.org.:user): ftp
331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

Now you need to find the right file:

ftp >cd /isc/bind/src/cur/bind-8
250 CWD command successful.
ftp > binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp > get bind-src.tar.gz
local: bind-src.tar.gz remote: bind-src.tar.gz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for bind-src.tar.gz (1600504 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
1600504 bytes received in 23 seconds (56 Kbytes/s)
ftp > quit
221 Goodbye.

Now you have the compressed tar file that contains the BIND source. Just use the tar command to uncompress and untar it:

%tar -zxvf bind-src.tar.gz

(This assumes you have a version of tar that can handle compressed gzip‘ed files; if you don’t, you can get a new copy of tar via anonymous FTP from ftp.gnu.org in /gnu/tar/tar-1.15.tar.) This creates a src directory with several subdirectories, including bin, include, lib, and port. Here are the contents of these subdirectories:

Before you can build everything, you need a C compiler. Nearly every version of Linux comes with gcc, the GNU C compiler, which works fine. If you need to get gcc, you can find information at http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html.

By default, BIND assumes that you’re using the GNU C compiler and various other GNUish utilities, such as flex and byacc. These are a standard part of most Linux development environments. If your version of Linux uses different programs, though, you’ll need to modify port/linux/Makefile.set. This file lets BIND know which programs to use.

Next, you compile everything from the top-level directory. First, run:

%make stdlinks

Then, run:

%make clean
% make depend

This removes any old object files you might have sitting around from previous compilation attempts and updates the Makefile dependencies. Then, compile the source code by running:

%make all

The source code should compile without any errors. Next, install the new named and named-xfer programs into /usr/sbin. You’ll need to become root to do this. Use the command:

#make install

As with BIND 8, you must get the source code first. And again, this requires FTP’ing to ftp.isc.org:

%cd /tmp
% ftp ftp.isc.org.
Connected to isrv4.pa.vix.com.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.1 Server (ISC FTP Server) [ftp.isc.org]
Name (ftp.isc.org.:user): ftp
331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password.
Password:
230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

Change to the right directory and get the file you need:

ftp>cd /isc/bind9
250 CWD command successful.

At this point, you should check to see what is the latest version available by doing a dir command. At the time of this writing, 9.3.2 is the latest version.

ftp>cd 9.3.2
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get bind-9.3.2.tar.gz
local: bind-9.3.2.tar.gz remote: bind-9.3.2.tar.gz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for bind-9.3.2.tar.gz (4673603 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
4673603 bytes received in 92.4 secs (35 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.

Use the tar command to uncompress and untar the compressed tar file:

%tar zxvf bind-9.3.2.tar.gz

Unlike the BIND 8 distribution, this creates a bind-9.3.2 subdirectory in your working directory for all the BIND source code. (BIND 8 distributions always unpacked everything into the working directory.) The bind-9.3.2 subdirectory will have subdirectories called:

Also unlike BIND 8, BIND 9 uses the near-miraculous configure script to determine the appropriate includes and compiler settings. Read through the README file to determine whether you need any special settings. configure supports command-line options that allow you to build without threads, use a different installation directory, and much more. To run configure:

%./configure

Or, if you need to disable threads, for example, run:

%./configure --disable-threads

To build BIND, type:

%make all

The source code should compile without errors. To install BIND, type this as root:

#make install

That’s all there is!