Detailed DNS setup ?

[Kevin Kinsey]

kilim wrote:

>Hello,
>
>
>I'm about to set up named under FreeBSD 5.4. 
>
>I have read all the documentation, O'Reily book and various sites
>telling me how to go about things. But I fear that just reading about
>it and doing it are completely different things.
>
>What I would like to do is write a list of things that I need to do in
>order to have my setup up and running. I would appreciate if you give
>it a look and point out any mistakes that I might have made.
>
>Thank you.
>
>
>Here it goes:
>
>1. In the /etc/rc.conf put the name of my domain as hostname, right ?
>
>   hostname="kilimdomain.com"
>
>2. Then add named_enable="yes" also to the /etc/rc.conf ?
>
>3. I'd like to run named in the chrooted directory and handbook's
>   24.6.8 section has a write up about it. Yet in /etc/defaults/
>   there is a knob: named_chroot_autoupdate="YES".
>
>   Does this imply that even if I don't follow the steps in 24.6.8 but
>   just the steps preceding it, in the 24.6.6 up to 24.6.8, will make
>   the named chrooted ?
>
>I'd like to get the answer to these questions (well question
>no. 3. really) before I proceed to write further as the rest of the
>write up depends on them.
>
>Thank you again !
>
>  
>

BIND in FreeBSD 5.X is version 9, and is already set up "in a sandbox"
(e.g., chrooted to /var/named).

Kevin Kinsey