Documentation for Bind in Fedora Core 1

[david]

Yes, Mr Hooper:

That one reference was the one I was having problems with.  It doesn't 
agree with the BIND documentation, so I had difficulty connecting the 
dots.  Perhaps an elaboration of that paragraph is called for.



At 02:05 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote:

>david said:
>
> > I wonder if this could be explained, maybe even in the release notes.
>
>http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/
>
>"The BIND nameserver has had its security tightened. The /var/named/
>directory is no longer owned by "named", but rather by "root". Slave zone
>files should now be stored in the new /var/named/slaves/ directory, which
>is owned by "named". In addition, a new bind-chroot  package makes it
>possible to run the named daemon in a chroot() "jail" (located in
>/var/named/chroot/) for greater security."
>
>--
>William Hooper
>
>
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