Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 17:09:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read <dread@texas.net> To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: What's named.root? Message-ID: <XFMail.990905170903.dread@texas.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net>
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On 05-Sep-99 chris@tourneyland.com wrote:
> I'm exploring using my BSD machine as a name server (a skill I'm finding
> extremely unpleasant to nurture), and in some newsgroup postings I came
> across several mentions of a a file called /etc/namedb/named.boot. I looked
> for such a file, and discovered I don't have one. However, I do have a
> /etc/namedb/named.root (as well as a /etc/namedb/named.conf).
>
> I'm curious - What are these for?
>
named.root is a cache to find the severs for the top-level domains (TLD)
i.e. servers of last resort if your forwarder(s) can't answer the query.
named.boot is the config file for bind 4.9.x
as a default bind looks for /etc/named.boot, but the FreeBSD folks
decided to put it in the /etc/named directory thus you should:
start with a switch
/usr/sbin/named -b /etc/named/named.boot
-- or --
ln -s /etc/named/named.boot /etc/named.boot
named.conf is the config file for bind 8.x
as a default it is in /etc/named
Regards,
---
Don Read dread@calcasieu.com
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Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX
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