Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:04:15 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var? Message-ID: <20120823070415.GB3410@kontrol.kode5.net> In-Reply-To: <5035C204.1060009@dreamchaser.org> References: <5035C204.1060009@dreamchaser.org>
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[ Gary Aitken wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 23:39:16 -0600 ] > Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? > > It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought /var was used for things like logs, process ids of running processes, etc. > > Gary If you read this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html thoroughly it explains why. It's a security feature and therefore chroot's in /var/namedb/etc/namedb. You will probably need to adjust your zone files to provide the full path name in the file statement within them. That's what I needed to do when I set up named earlier this week.
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