I have looked at how Debian configured BIND. If you read the readme files, they have split the zone files to two locations. One in /etc/bind for permanent data and /var/cache/bind/ for transient data (such as when BIND is the secondary server). I can follow that logic, but I cannot follow or deduce the reasons they split the configuration the way the have. It seems very arbitrary and geared towards the home office configuration (just my perception).
Tim -----Original Message----- From: Glenn English [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:17 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: BIND 9 Question On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:40 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 09:31 pm, Glenn English wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 19:55 -0700, ke6isf wrote: > > > When I migrated from Mandrake to Debian, I simply copied the > > > named.conf over, made a single adjustment (on Mandrake, named.conf > > > lives in /etc - in Debian, it lives in /etc/bind), regen'ed my > > > rndc.conf, and fired it up with success - note the config is > > > particularly exotic, being that I'm the authority for two TLDs in > > > OpenNIC. > > > > I betcha he also moved the zone files that RH keeps in /var/named. > > Debian likes them to be in /var/cache/bind. > > You mean /etc/bind, right? That's where they live in sid... Debian (the sarge I just put on my server, anyway) has a cleverly convoluted way of configuring the name server. In /etc/bind, there's a file called named.conf. In it are a few zones with the files specified, with absolute pathnames, as being in /etc/bind. There are also a couple includes: named.conf.options and named.conf.local. In named.conf.options, the default zone file directory is set to /var/cache/bind, and "all" the zones are listed in named.conf.local with relative pathnames. Therefore, bind expects to find them in /var/cache/bind. So Paul's right, and so am I. There are zone files in both places. If the idea is to move as little as possible, I claim named.conf should just be put into /etc/bind, and RH's entire /var/named should just be scp'ed into /var. If you want to do it the hard way (like I did) cut&paste from the RH named.conf into /etc/bind/named.conf.local and put the zones in /var/cache/bind. I'm very sure there's are good and sufficient reasons the Debian folk did things the way they did... And you might need to take a look at the Webmin Bind module configuration. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
