Bind-8 directory usage
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue May 23 22:08:51 UTC 2000
> Thank you for your responses.
>
> Well, now that we've "established" that this is "possible," my
> question is "is this desirable?"
It is individual system administrators choice. I generally
have two or three subdirectories: master, cache and in-addr.
The later two contain cached zone file. The master directory
is always in a area being backed up. The others may or may not
be.
>
> Part of why I'm asking here is that at a previous usergroup
> meeting, I mentioned putting nameserver configs someplace
> besides /var & was nearly fed to the sharks... :)
I use /etc/bind as my directory often.
> What was said was along the lines of "everyone else puts it in
> /var, so you probably should, too..." ("Everyone else" meaning
> Solaris, HP-UX, Linux FSStnd...)
>
> But I have some books from who I'd guess are Very Respected
> Authors :), & one of them puts these in, for example
> /var/domain. (!)
If /var/domain get backed up that is fare enough.
>
> The approach I'm exploring is to put system-configuration things
> *I* do into /etc & things that "it" ("the system" or named or
> "things retrieved/downloaded, such as named-xfers of
> secondaries") into /var, on the semi-assumption that /var can be
> (somewhat) "sacrificial" & that I take more aggressive measures
> to preserve /etc.
>
> Also, IIRC, the named documentation & books do not make it clear
> that (well, at least to me :) the "directory" option only means
> "default directory" & that explicit paths can be specified on
> the zone stanzas. Perhaps I did not dig deep enough, though...
Well named is like all other good applications. It takes both
relative and absolute path names.
>
> Again, thank you for your advice & input.
>
> -kc
>
Mark
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