BIND installed on a Solaris 11.4 x 86 virtual server
Anand Buddhdev
anandb at ripe.net
Mon Jun 1 18:59:54 UTC 2020
On 01/06/2020 20:08, DeCaro, James John (Jim) CIV DISA FE (USA) via
bind-users wrote:
Hi Jim,
> Installed BIND 9.16.3 and I discovered that the SMF dns/server is
> trying to read named.conf from /usr/local/etc/:
> "/usr/local/etc/named.conf: file not found". I am trying to figure
> out how point named to read /etc/named.conf.
I last touched SMF over 15 years ago, and I don't remember enough about
it now, so I can't speak for the SMF parts of your question.
> I did try re-compiling BIND with different switches but it resulted
> in the same thing. Is there an environment variable or a ./configure
> switch to re-point the default to /etc/named.conf? I tried
> '--sysconfdir=/etc' --no luck there. Do I edit the manifest file?
This *is* the correct way to define the default location of named.conf.
> I attempted named -c /etc/named.conf with no luck
This *must* work. However, your description "no luck" isn't enough. Can
you describe exactly what happened when you named "named -c
/etc/named.conf"?
> $ named -g:
Run "named -c /etc/named.conf -g" and see what happens.
Regards,
Anand
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