From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 17:37:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13162106566B for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:37:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3448FC1F for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:37:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from kobe.laptop (vader.bytemobile-rio.ondsl.gr [83.235.57.37]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m39HIYuP019804 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:18:51 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m39HIPLc003980; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:18:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m39HIDux003978; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:18:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ewald Jenisch References: <20080409143619.GA3169@aurora.oekb.co.at> <47FCE85B.4040505@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080409163450.GA3583@aurora.oekb.co.at> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:18:13 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20080409163450.GA3583@aurora.oekb.co.at> (Ewald Jenisch's message of "Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:34:50 +0200") Message-ID: <87prszymju.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m39HIYuP019804 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.127, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.27, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "make-localhost" not there (DNS/named setup on 7.0) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:37:08 -0000 On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:34:50 +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: >> The handbook is slightly out of date and the 'make-localhost' script >> is now history. Instead, the system comes with pre-installed >> /etc/namedb/master/localhost-forward.db and .../localhost-reverse.db >> zone files and the appropriate configuration shown in the example >> named.conf file. Basically, ignore the paragraph in the handbook >> that says 'run make-localhost' and nowadays base your named.conf on >> the sample configuration supplied with the system rather than the >> examples shown in the handbook. > > Hi Matthew, > Puh - good to hear - at least I now know that I'm not missing > something from the base-install... FWIW, I've opened PR docs/122604 to track this, and I will try to update the Handbook soon-ish. Thanks to both of you for bringing this to my attention :-)