Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:44:35 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: kilim <kilim@phenix.rootshell.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detailed DNS setup ? Message-ID: <4315B443.3030602@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20050831122100.GA32201@phenix.rootshell.be> References: <20050831122100.GA32201@phenix.rootshell.be>
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kilim wrote: >Hello, > > >I'm about to set up named under FreeBSD 5.4. > >I have read all the documentation, O'Reily book and various sites >telling me how to go about things. But I fear that just reading about >it and doing it are completely different things. > >What I would like to do is write a list of things that I need to do in >order to have my setup up and running. I would appreciate if you give >it a look and point out any mistakes that I might have made. > >Thank you. > > >Here it goes: > >1. In the /etc/rc.conf put the name of my domain as hostname, right ? > > hostname="kilimdomain.com" > >2. Then add named_enable="yes" also to the /etc/rc.conf ? > >3. I'd like to run named in the chrooted directory and handbook's > 24.6.8 section has a write up about it. Yet in /etc/defaults/ > there is a knob: named_chroot_autoupdate="YES". > > Does this imply that even if I don't follow the steps in 24.6.8 but > just the steps preceding it, in the 24.6.6 up to 24.6.8, will make > the named chrooted ? > >I'd like to get the answer to these questions (well question >no. 3. really) before I proceed to write further as the rest of the >write up depends on them. > >Thank you again ! > > > BIND in FreeBSD 5.X is version 9, and is already set up "in a sandbox" (e.g., chrooted to /var/named). Kevin Kinsey
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