options - directory - how to redefine?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37F8B48E.4EC7113F at bancobrasil.com.br>,
Joaquim Eudes Mendes Gomide  <jgomide at bancobrasil.com.br> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using Solaris 7, bind 8.1.2, and this machine is going to be the
>root server of my internal network. I have about 7000 internal domains,
>and I need to make some hierarchy using different directories.
>I was using bind 4.9.7 and everyhing was working fine just using
>"directory  /a/b/c". To use bind 8.1.2, I translated the named.boot file
>to named.conf using the tool named-bootconf. If I put "options {
>directory a/b/...}" in different places, I got an error I can´t redefine
>options.
>How do I use multiple directories in bind 8.1.2?

You don't.  You were never supposed to do it in BIND 4, either, but it
sometimes worked (it wouldn't do the right thing for secondary domains,
though).

You'll have to go through your named.conf file using full pathnames in the
"filename" fields.

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