Re: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind

2016-01-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.01.2016 um 22:37 schrieb John Miller: On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: normally anything is done with backends and scripts Yep - via Puppet and scripting for us, mostly. so after once configured it don't matter if things are bekow /var/named/chroot/ or on a high

Re: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind

2016-01-14 Thread John Miller
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 14.01.2016 um 21:48 schrieb John Miller: >> >> Thanks for the advice, Mike. We chrooted our install because it was >> "best practice" security-wise, but from an administration standpoint, >> it's been a bit of a headache: for example,

Re: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind

2016-01-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.01.2016 um 21:48 schrieb John Miller: Thanks for the advice, Mike. We chrooted our install because it was "best practice" security-wise, but from an administration standpoint, it's been a bit of a headache: for example, you have to keep straight what goes in /etc and /var/named/chroot/et

Re: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind

2016-01-14 Thread John Miller
Thanks for the advice, Mike. We chrooted our install because it was "best practice" security-wise, but from an administration standpoint, it's been a bit of a headache: for example, you have to keep straight what goes in /etc and /var/named/chroot/etc, you end up setting a $BIND_CHROOT environment

Re: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind

2016-01-14 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
Yes you can run without the chroot. Years ago it was considered best practice to chroot and most power users would have said you were insane not to do so. Now there are increasingly many who say it's not worth the effort (fairly easy to get around in many cases) -- do a bit of google engineeri

RE: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation

2016-01-14 Thread MURTARI, JOHN
-Original Message- From: Harshith Mulky To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind When installing bind, the following 2 are installed bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6.x86_64 bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6.x86_64 What is t