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From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
Cc: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Updating BIND 9
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Trond Endrestøl wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:19+1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>
> > Could someone kindly tell me what the magic switches are, to install
> > BIND 9, so that the binaries and conf files end up in the right places?
> > Been Googling for a while now, but I can't locate the message from the
> > mailing list that mentioned them.
> >
> > Also, could this information go into the Make file (e.g.) for BIND 9 in
> > the ports collection?
>
> Well, I don't mind the executables ending up in /usr/local/{,s}bin,
> but I do fancy /etc/namedb as the --sysconfdir.
>
> So I change the Makefile to contain --sysconfdir=/etc/namedb prior to
> compiling BIND.

Here's what I do:

ln -s /etc/namedb/named.conf /usr/local/etc/named.conf

Just make sure you put directory "/etc/namedb"; in your config file and
everything is happy.

-gordon


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