I wanted to update BIND9 on my Debain Jessie Linux system to a newer version than the currently packaged version 9.9. Here are the steps to upgrade it to version 9.11: cd /usr/local/src wget ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.11.0/bind-9.11.0.tar.gz tar zxvf bind-9.11.0.tar.gz rm bind-9.11.0.tar.gz cd