Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 00:05:35 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS setup problem, "Can't find server name" Message-ID: <37EBE79F.A7E22789@prime.net.ua> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990924090403.25810A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
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I'm sure the best way to post this named.conf here and confirmation
that all listed zones are lays where thay have to be.
Dan Busarow wrote:
> 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
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