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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:04:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>
To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
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Subject: Re: DNS setup problem, "Can't find server name" 
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On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Dan Busarow wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Cliff Addy wrote:
> > Actually, I think I may have found it.  The new named *insists* that
> > certain files be located in /etc/namedb, even if named.conf tells it to
>
> No it doesn't.  My zone files and named.conf are in 
> /usr/local/lib/named and everything works fine.  You can also 
> give the hints file any name you want.  named.conf controls
> all.  You _do_ need to tell named where to find named.conf if it's
> not in /etc/namedb by using the -b /path/to/named.conf flag.

Well, that's precisely what I *had* set up.  It was finding the named.conf
fine, with this at the top:

  options {
      directory "/etc/named.data";
      listen-on { 207.239.68.71; };
  };

However, the error logs stated it could not find localhost.rev.  I created
one in /etc/named.data, but the same message showed up.  ONLY when I moved
it to /etc/namedb did the message disappear.  According to what I
understand of named, the option above should have kept it from looking
anywhere but /etc/named.data

So, then I moved all my other conf files into named.data and voila, all
worked fine.  Just out of curiousity, which version of named/bind are you
using?  The old system is only a few months old and did not even want/need
this "localhost.rev" file and worked fine with the identical directory
structure I was originally using on the new box. I'm thinking this
prediliction for /etc/namedb is unique to one version. 

Cliff



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