From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 15:39:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA16924 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA16917 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.0/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id WAA18835; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:39:34 GMT Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:39:34 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock Reply-To: Michael Hancock To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: read only root: (was Re: comments on this change please.) In-Reply-To: <199610231925.VAA26773@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Michael Hancock wrote: > > > I think the named config files are variable enough to go into /var and too > > variable if you want a read-only root. > > The shipped namedb files are non-working samples anyway. So would > a commented-out > > # directory /var/namedb Did you mean /etc/namedb? > in named.boot make you happy? Sites interested in not bloating /etc > with the DNS stuff are then free to move it there. (named.boot itself > is probably static enough to always live under /etc.) This would be ok. I'm used to getting the BIND distribution from ISC directly, but since it's nicely packaged by FreeBSD I've been using that instead recently. I have to move everything to /var/named and point named over to it in the sysconfig file. Actually, I didn't check if I really need to do this, is /etc/namedb/named.boot compiled into the FreeBSD named? Nevermind, it's probably /etc/named.boot. I didn't notice the ndc utilities that come with BIND. I started using these a year ago and I miss these. e.g. ndc reload, ndc stop, ndc start, ndc status, etc. Regards, Mike Hancock