Upgrading BIND on a plesk windows server

If you want to manually upgrade the version of BIND running on your plesk windows server then follow the following steps:

1. Check what version of bind you are currently running by going to the Components Management in plesk, you should see something like the following:

   

2. Go to LINK and download desirable version of BIND for Windows.
3. Unzip the file to a a new folder
4. Within the plesk service manager stop the BIND service Plesk Name Server service
5. Rename the %plesk_dir%\dns\bin folder to something like bin(old)
6. You can either copy the entire unzipped folder into the %plesk_dir%\dns\bin dir or you can copy the following set of unzipped files to %plesk_dir%\dns\bin folder:
   
   
   Overwriting any files as you have already made a backup of the bin directory
   
   BINDInstall.exe
   dig.exe
   dnssec-keygen.exe
   dnssec-signzone.exe
   host.exe
   named.exe
   named-checkconf.exe
   named-checkzone.exe
   named-compilezone.exe
   nslookup.exe
   nsupdate.exe
   rndc-confgen.exe
   rndc.exe
   libbind9.dll
   libeay32.dll
   bindevt.dll
   libdns.dll
   libisccc.dll
   libisccfg.dll
   libisc.dll
   liblwres.dll
   
   
   

7. Check a couple of the files to make sure that the permissions are inherited from the parent folder %plesk_dir%\dns\bin and look like:

   
   psaadm – allow read & execute
   psaserv – deny all
   psacln – deny all
   




8. Make sure that the Operational System has the version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package installed equaled or higher than the package shipped with the BIND distributive (the vcredist_x86.exe file in the unzipped folder).
9. Start BIND service Plesk Name Server service.
10. If you then login to plesk and go to Components Management you can check what version is registered in plesk to make sure the upgrade worked:

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