[K12OSN] Need help testing a different approach for the caching-nameserver-ltsp package

[Eric Harrison]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 15:54, Eric Harrison wrote:
>
>> There are two scenarios I have found where this breaks. One is
>> that /etc/named.conf has been customized but still includes the
>> ltsp zones. If the ltsp zones are included twice, named won't start.
>> The second case is that an alternate config file was already
>> specified in /etc/sysconfig/named. If such a customization was made,
>> the caching-nameserver-ltsp package should not modify it.
>
> This happens with the caching-nameserver package with any
> local modifications, not just ltsp's.  The best approach is
> to not use the caching-nameserver package unless you really
> don't want anything but caching (i.e. no local zones or
> config file modifications.).  The regular bind package
> provides caching anyway.

This is always going to be the case if a /etc/named.conf (or
alternate) is pre-configured. I don't see a way around it.

If I'm wrong, please hit me with the clue stick!

-Eric