Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:55:25 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: bind setup Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000919165525.0088d100@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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I want to set up my own nameserver, but have a couple of minor questions. 1. Most of the examples (including the bind8 docs that the port installed) show the named directory being set up under /var, as /var/named. One tutorial even expressly stated this was recommended by a guideline on Linux filesystems. The port (and the original FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE installation) put it into /etc/namedb. The other examples say that bind is supposed, by default, to read its configuration info from /etc/named.conf, but under FreeBSD the default is /etc/namedb/named.conf. So my question is, does this matter? Does anybody happen to know *why* FreeBSD (and presumably BSD before it) put it under /etc/namedb and not /var/named? Or wasn't there any particular reason? 2. Does anybody know of any web site that gives examples of named files that are fully compliant with the bind8 recommendations (they seem to be backwardly compatible with bind4, but *recommend* some quite different things). I've tried all the sites that I've found through search engines, but most of them seem to be quite old. I haven't found one yet that followed the same format as the bind8 docs, but I can't quite puzzle out exactly what the bind8 docs *mean*! I know the files I have on hand, legacy from the sysadmin before me, will work, but I fret that they're not compliant with some standard. -- Roger The best thing about growing old is it takes so long. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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