My thanks to everyone that answered for their wit and wisdom, both of which are
good to find when joining a list. /var/named it is.
its UNIX fragmentation all over again. 8)
<grin> Remember when Windows NT was begun as the Great White Hope that would
have all the functionality (and more!) of Unix, but would have a Common Flag and
Parm Convention so you wouldn't have to learn a different one for every
different command?
On 9/23/2010 4:14 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
they (the distro maintainers) could not agree to put anything in the same place
if the worlds sanity depended on it.
/var/named
/srv/bind
/etc/bind
/var/lib/named
/usr/local/named
it's all over the place. myself i just create links from /var/named (which is
where I think it was found on most commercial UNIX's I've used, IRIX admin
here..) to wherever they decided to stick it. That being said, if you build
it from source (which I'd be inclined to do if not using a linux wiht a support
contract), you can pass the path to configure and place it anywhere you wish
with zero functionally loss.
its a bunch of "my way makes sense, i'll pee in this corner, its mine now).
its UNIX fragmentation all over again. 8)
<rant off, sorry>
-g
On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Michael Sinatra wrote:
On 09/23/10 12:53, Stewart Dean wrote:
On AIX, I'm used to /etc/dns. CentOS seems to place in /var/named. Is
there any blessed, bestofallpossibleworlds place for the zone files. I'm
moving our DNS from from AIX to CentOS/Fedora. I'm inclined to create
the /etc/dns dir but maybe it'd be better to put it in
/var/named.....Comments, brickbats?
I have always found it to be a good idea to do what the OS wants. Many
OSes now are set up to run bind in a chroot jail (a good thing), but
this requires a specific directory structure. If your OS has already
set that up (and if the startup scripts work with that structure), then
it's best to keep them that way. Probably the ideal thing to do is use
the OS defaults and then symlink your previous directory structure to
the OS defaults as necessary to maintain compatibility with your
in-house scripts and processes.
michael
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