From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 15:11:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (tcnet18-014.austin.texas.net [209.99.96.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15201574B for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 15:10:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (localhost.calcasieu.com [127.0.0.1]) by donhm.calcasieu.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27186; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 17:09:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990905162426.007e63e0@mail.9netave.net> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 17:09:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: chris@tourneyland.com Subject: RE: What's named.root? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- But I'm in good company, sendmail has kicked a great many butts in the past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message