From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 05:41:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3293416A4CE; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:41:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B7D43D49; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:41:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (c-24-6-187-112.client.comcast.net[24.6.187.112]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004092805411201300lna4me>; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:41:12 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.11/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8S5fBUm003839; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i8S5fBkc003838; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to cristjc@comcast.net using -f Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:41:11 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav Message-ID: <20040928054111.GB3706@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <1096042856.24267.6.camel@purgatory.ceribus.net> <20040924222550.F6548@URF.trarfvf> <1096064849.1047.7.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040925001835.U7126@URF.trarfvf> <20040927184543.I911@bo.vpnaa.bet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: Doug Barton Subject: Re: Proper way to run bind9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:41:13 -0000 Has the crew importing BIND 9 considered whether this may be a chance to move FreeBSD's default home for zone files out of /etc/namedb? Leaving named.conf under /etc is perfectly fine, but I've always found something... unsavory about having slave and dynamic zone files living under /etc. That is, I, and I know some others as well, find the idea of having daemon processes writing files in /etc suboptimal. It also messes with that dream of a FreeBSD where / and /usr (if they are not on one partition anyway) can easily be mounted read-only without breaking stuff. Yes, of course, the purists can configure the BIND root to be anywhere, but defaulting to /etc still seems like a bad way to start off those who do not know any better. Perhaps this is an opportunity to move to a /var/named or something like that? -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org