From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 13:46:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEE016A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:46:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A6843D46 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:46:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7VDij68002340; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:45:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4315B443.3030602@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:44:35 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050823 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kilim References: <20050831122100.GA32201@phenix.rootshell.be> In-Reply-To: <20050831122100.GA32201@phenix.rootshell.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detailed DNS setup ? 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, 31 Aug 2005 13:46:07 -0000 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