Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:24:37 +0200 From: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 available Message-ID: <200410042124.38050.freebsd@redesjm.local> In-Reply-To: <20041004125752.Y6673@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <4160259A.3070708@FreeBSD.org> <200410041734.53316.freebsd@redesjm.local> <20041004125752.Y6673@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
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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. > > <snip> > > 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
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