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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:13:35 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Charlie Root <root@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.var.dist src/etc/namedb named.conf
Message-ID:  <151700000.998594014@lobster.originative.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200108231756.f7NHutU88154@earth.backplane.com>
References:   <200108231632.f7NGWEo55019@aldan.algebra.com> <200108231756.f7NHutU88154@earth.backplane.com>

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--On Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:56:55 -0700 Matt Dillon
<dillon@earth.backplane.com> wrote:

> 
> :
> :> > >   Change pidfile location to /var/run/named/pid.
> :
> :Yes! I'd also suggest moving the sandbox into /var/db/named ...
> 
>     Most of the files in /etc/namedb really belong in /etc/namedb.  They
> are     not generated files.  Only the secondary files are generated on
> the     fly and for the sandbox and chroot options to work that must be
> in a subdirectory.

I put all my domain files in /var/dns. That's a personal admin choice and
isn't really a location I'd advocate standardising on. I'd suggest /var
something though, /var/db/dns is a reasonable suggestion.

/etc is not the right place for zone files. Zone files are not really part
of the system configuration and don't fit conceptually in /etc.

From a practical perpsective, I have a fair number of zones and /etc is on
a partition that invariably doesn't have enough space. Zone files are
something that will take up an indeterminate amount of space and therefore
/var is the appropriate filesystem for them, not the root partition,
especially the slave files, since they're written at runtime and / is a
partition that preferably shouldn't be written to.

If we're going to make a serious attempt at setting up bind in a sandbox by
default then the location of zone files should be standardised outside of
/etc/namedb.


Paul Richards
FreeBSD Services Ltd

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