Where do you keep your db files?

[Harold Pritchett]

John Pickett wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I'm sitting here reading "DNS and BIND" and it suggests a certain naming
> scheme for my DNS files.  However, it gives no indication where an "ideal"
> spot might be to put these files.  Any opinions?  Cheers!

The file "named.conf" should go in the "/etc" directory.  This can either
be the real "/etc" directory, or one relative to the chroot directory used
to start named.  The other files go wherever the "named.conf" file says
they should be.  A common place is in "/var/named" (once again relative to
the real root or the chroot directory.)

In my named.conf I have:

options {
        directory "/var/named";
        listen-on {127.0.0.1; 192.168/16;};
};

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Harold Pritchett
The University of Georgia
harold at uga.edu