DNS Setup

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 22:38, Cowles, Steve wrote:
> Gator wrote:
> > Does anyone have a link to a good tutorial on DNS in Fedora?  They
> > changed the directories from the old RH9.  I can figure some of them
> > out, but a few are a mystery as to how they should be used (dev,
> > slave, etc.)
> > 
> > Thanks - Jack
> 
> The following website is a good starting point.
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/ch-bin
> d.html
> 
> With regards to the directories you mentioned - The slave directory "could"
> be used to store only slave zones. That's up to you with how you configure
> slave zones in named.conf. The etc, dev, var... directories are for when you
> configure bind to run in a chroot'd environment. Checkout:
> /etc/sysconfig/named
> 
> If you do enable bind to run in a chroot'd environment, then the directory
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It is by default.

> structure/files bind would normally access in a non-chroot'd environment
> would need to be recreated in the chroot'd directory root. Redhat has
> already created the chroot'd directory root in /var/named/chroot. So if you
> specify the following in named.conf...
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
> };
> 
> Then the absolute path to the above mentioned /var/named directory would be
> /var/named/chroot/var/named. Also, since named is started in a chroot'd
> environment, then the named.conf file would also need to be located in the
> chroot'd etc directory, not /etc/named.conf. i.e.
> /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf. And so on... The key here is to think
> relative to the chroot base directory.
> 
> Steve Cowles
> 

Because of the chrooted environment, /var/named/chroot/var/named is seen
as /var/named by the daemon so none of the playing with path names is
needed.  It automagically sees the correct path.

Steve, Please read up on chroot before you confuse the guy.