From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 24 9:19:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F3A14D43 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA29176; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:14:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Cliff Addy Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS setup problem, "Can't find server name" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Cliff Addy wrote: > 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 That would make me suspicious. My zone file for 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa is db.127.0.0 Only place I've seen localhost.rev is in the FBSD *default* named.[boot|conf] files. I'll bet named was never reading your named.conf file at all. > 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 Using absolute paths you can tell it to look elsewhere, but basically you're right. > 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. I'm using 8.2.1 What do you have for named_flags in /etc/rc.conf ? Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message