Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 17:15:03 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst> To: wollman Cc: current Subject: /etc/rc named change Message-ID: <199503200115.RAA03293@freefall.cdrom.com>
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I think that the change in boot file location for named is gratuitous. The world expects named to look for /etc/named.boot and when you changed it, you screwed everyone who runs a nameserver with their boot file as /etc/named.boot. Lots of folks don't want to worry about their named stuff getting overwritten by their OS vendor, so they keep there files in /usr/local/etc/namedb or some such location and fix up /etc/named.boot to do the right thing. By moving the start file with no warning, you've made things break in a silent way (I didn't know my nameserver wasn't serving my domain for the last 18 hours because it was busy using the bloody default files from the distribution.) I think a better choice would be to leave the distribution crud in /etc/namedb as it currently is, but have the make distribution script create a symlink between /etc/named.boot and /etc/namedb/named.boot if no /etc/named.boot file is present. Paul
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