Error in Handbook regarding Location of named configuration files.

Hexren me at hexren.net
Mon Nov 8 18:10:13 UTC 2004


SSS> Hexren wrote:

>>URL to page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bind9.html
>>
>>In the handbook it says:
>>  
>>
>>>Configuration files for named currently reside in /var/named/etc/namedb/ and will need modification before use. This is where most of the configuration will be performed.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>In my sytsem Version 5.2.1 those configuration files are under
>>/etc/namedb/ which is also the location where they should be following
>>the named(8) manpage.
>>  
>>
SSS> In FreeBSD 5.3, named per default runs in a chroot environment in 
SSS> /var/named and thus seeing /etc/namedb as usual.
SSS> Manual is still right from view of named. But the system administrator 
SSS> will have to edit /var/named/etc/namedb/

SSS> chrooting and chroot directory can be modified by named_chrootdir in 
SSS> rc.conf.

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Thank you that solves my iritattion :)



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