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
ommend it, but they do not explicitly > discourage it. > """ > > From: on behalf of Harshith Mulky > > Date: Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 1:46 AM > To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" > Subject: What is the use of having a chroot path during installati

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

2016-01-14 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
14, 2016 at 1:46 AM To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org<mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org>" mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org>> Subject: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind Hello, When installing bind, the following 2 are installed bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6

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

2016-01-13 Thread Harshith Mulky
Hello, 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 the need of this bind-chroot? I see all files in /var/named path are softlinks to /var/named/chroot/var/named and /etc/named.conf is softlink to /var/