Documentation for Bind in Fedora Core 1

[david]

Sir

Thanks for the advice.  I did read the release notes several times before 
posting the question, and did not figure out the answers from those 
notes.  So, that's why I asked for elaboration.

David



At 02:19 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote:
>Am Di, den 20.04.2004 schrieb david um 22:53:
> > Friends
> >
> > It appears that the man-page that comes with FC1 describing "named" is not
> > quite right.  In particular, it refers to the default configuration file
> > being in /etc/named.conf (where I had it in RedHat 7.2), whereas the 
> Fedora
> > release notes have some references to an alternate location 
> in  /var.   So,
> > when I put my conf file back to /etc/named.conf, things didn't quite work
> > as expected.
>
>If you only install bind it's ok, if you also install bind-chroot bind
>is executed inside the chrootened environment in /var/named/chroot. So
>you have to put the configuration file to
>/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf and the zonefiles inside
>/var/named/chroot/var/named/var/named(/slaves).
> >
> > I wonder if this could be explained, maybe even in the release notes.
>
>Did you read them???
>
>Quote from the 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."
>
>So please be so kind as to read the release notes next time before you
>post a question like this.
>
>Christoph
>
>
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