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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:10:09 +0100
From:      Hexren <me@hexren.net>
To:        Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup <sebastian@struchtrup.de>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re[2]: Error in Handbook regarding Location of named configuration files.
Message-ID:  <1637489919.20041108191009@hexren.net>
In-Reply-To: <418FA6FD.8080808@struchtrup.de>
References:  <1082576444.20041108174816@hexren.net> <418FA6FD.8080808@struchtrup.de>

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SSS> Hexren wrote:

>>URL to page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bind9.html
>>
>>In the handbook it says:
>>  
>>
>>>Configuration files for named currently reside in /var/named/etc/namedb/ and will need modification before use. This is where most of the configuration will be performed.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>In my sytsem Version 5.2.1 those configuration files are under
>>/etc/namedb/ which is also the location where they should be following
>>the named(8) manpage.
>>  
>>
SSS> In FreeBSD 5.3, named per default runs in a chroot environment in 
SSS> /var/named and thus seeing /etc/namedb as usual.
SSS> Manual is still right from view of named. But the system administrator 
SSS> will have to edit /var/named/etc/namedb/

SSS> chrooting and chroot directory can be modified by named_chrootdir in 
SSS> rc.conf.

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Thank you that solves my iritattion :)



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