From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 19:24:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BDF16A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:24:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.jazztel.es (smtp1.jazztel.es [62.14.3.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9296E43D2D for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:24:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from antivirus by smtp1.jazztel.es with antivirus id 1CEYSB-0005WS-00 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:24:59 +0200 Received: from [212.106.236.104] (helo=rguez.homeunix.net) by smtp1.jazztel.es with esmtp id 1CEYSA-0005VM-00 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:24:58 +0200 Received: from redesjm.local (orion.redesjm.local [192.168.254.16]) by rguez.homeunix.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i94JOeN7012382; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:24:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@redesjm.local) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by redesjm.local (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i94JOc3x012510; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:24:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@redesjm.local) From: Jose M Rodriguez To: Andre Guibert de Bruet Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:24:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <4160259A.3070708@FreeBSD.org> <200410041734.53316.freebsd@redesjm.local> <20041004125752.Y6673@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <20041004125752.Y6673@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410042124.38050.freebsd@redesjm.local> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.1-beta; AVE 6.27.0.12; VDF 6.27.0.81 (host: antares.redesjm.local) X-Virus-Scanned: by antivirus cc: Jose M Rodriguez cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 available X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:24:57 -0000 El Lunes, 4 de Octubre de 2004 19:09, Andre Guibert de Bruet escribi=F3: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > > El Lunes, 4 de Octubre de 2004 16:10, Scott Long escribi=F3: > >> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the > >> availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7. This is the seventh and final > >> BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. It is intended for early adopters > >> and those wishing to help find and/or fix bugs. The 5.3 release > >> cycle will follow on next with an RC1 release candidate unless > >> significant show- stopper bugs are found. The schedule can be > >> found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html. Be > >> sure to check the "Known Issues" below as there are known problems > >> that are still being worked on at this time. > >> > >> IMPORTANT: > >> BIND 9.3.0 has replaced BIND 8.x as the default name server. > > > > At last here, BETA7 come with a populated /var/named. > > > > named is now chroot()ed to /var/named after it parses the command > line but before it reads the config file. As such, it is necessary to > have this directory structure. You can override its location with the > "named_chrootdir" rc.conf variable or by using -t at the command line > if you invoke named using your own scripts. > I know that, I have several bind9/FreeBSD4 dns servers running. Also I=20 test BETA6/BETA7 for dns server with good results. But I'm afraid you can't imagine how many FreeBSD system run right now=20 with a well configured /var/named. a populated /var/named is a serious thread against binary updates. I'll prefer that /etc/rc.d/maned populate it when needed or other=20 dirname for the chroot.=20 > In our test environment, we migrated a good chunk of the domains that > we host on BIND8 to BIND9 with minimal work. The instructions listed > in UPDATING did the trick! > Yes. It's a good work. I don't have any objections to that. It's only that /var/named has strong meanings on BSD systems. > Regards, > > | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > thanks, =2D- josemi