On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:25:14PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Because I was following the instructions at > http://www.psionic.com/papers/dns/linux-dns which suggests named and > named-xfer should go there. I decided to throw the rest in there too. :-)
This is wrong. > > But if we don't need them there we should definitely take them out. Both bind4 (default) and bind8 (from ports) in Openbsd have only named-xfer in /var/named/. > Because it is a non-standard /var directory, I thought it would be helpful > to name it after the package it belonged to. True, but as Ethan says "is not really secure, only better." Its not a biggie though. Nicholas