RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Lightner, Jeff
: dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: repository for zone files It now looks like VMWare may eventually end up owning SUSE: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1831&tag=nl.e040 Dale On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > Technic

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread dhottinger
- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:24 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: RE: repository for zone files Quoting "Lig

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Lightner, Jeff
nces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:24 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: RE: repository for zone files Quoting "Lightner, Jeff" : > Up unt

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread dhottinger
- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Stewart Dean Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:48 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: repository for zone files My thanks to everyone that answered

Re: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread dhottinger
Quoting Stewart Dean : 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

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Lightner, Jeff
+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Stewart Dean Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:48 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: repository for zone files My thanks to everyone that answered for their wit and wisdom, both of

Re: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Stewart Dean
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) Remember when Windows NT was begun as the Great White Hope that would have all the functionality (and more!) of Un

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Lightner, Jeff
jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Paul Wouters Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:31 PM To: Jason Mitchell Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: RE: repository for zone files On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Jason Mitchell wrote: > [...@c

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-23 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Jason Mitchell wrote: [...@clueby4.net ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.5 (Final) [...@clueby4.net ~]$ yum info bind-chroot Name : bind-chroot That's only there as legacy though, to not break updating old systems that depend on it. The recommended meth

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-23 Thread Jason Mitchell
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Paul Wouters wrote: > Note that RHEL/CentOS/Fedora rely on SElinux instead of chroot(). The problem > with chroot() is needing copies of system files, which make it hard to package > for updates, etc. But the same applies, for SElinux policies to work properly, > stick with th

Re: repository for zone files

2010-09-23 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, 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 crea

Re: repository for zone files

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/23/10 13:14, 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

Re: repository for zone files

2010-09-23 Thread Greg Whynott
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

Re: repository for zone files

2010-09-23 Thread wllarso
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:53:26 -0400, 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

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-23 Thread Lightner, Jeff
/etc = named.conf, rndc.conf and other config files /var/named = zone files. Are you running just bind or bind-chroot. If the latter then named.conf goes in /var/named/chroot/etc rather than /etc and the zone files go into /var/named/chroot/var/named instead of /var/named. You can configure thin

Re: repository for zone files

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Sinatra
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 t