Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:03:57 +0100 From: Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup <sebastian@struchtrup.de> To: Hexren <me@hexren.net> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Error in Handbook regarding Location of named configuration files. Message-ID: <418FA6FD.8080808@struchtrup.de> In-Reply-To: <1082576444.20041108174816@hexren.net> References: <1082576444.20041108174816@hexren.net>
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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. > > In FreeBSD 5.3, named per default runs in a chroot environment in /var/named and thus seeing /etc/namedb as usual. Manual is still right from view of named. But the system administrator will have to edit /var/named/etc/namedb/ chrooting and chroot directory can be modified by named_chrootdir in rc.conf.
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