Setting up chroot on Solaris 9 with BIND 9 -t switch

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Rich Parkin <RParkin at ldmi.com> wrote:
> Hello, all!

> I am in the process of rebuilding our DNS servers with Solaris 9 and
> BIND 9 and have BIND working (installed in /usr/local). I'm trying to
> keep things as simple as I can so others can support it, but secure
> enough for ISP production.   I would like to set up a chroot environment
> using the -t switch.  I've looked for documentation on doing this and
> haven't found much so far.

> I have built a BIND 9 implementation on Solaris before, but my efforts
> at setting up chroot with the available documentation at the time didn't
> work (I'm not terribly skilled with Solaris yet).  Can anyone point me
> at a resource?   I've looked at the Secure BIND Template, but it doesn't
> cover use of the -t switch.

> Does the chroot environment have to be set up basically the same
> whether or not you use the -t switch?  Can anyone explain in technical
> detail what the -t switch actually does?  Any reason why I shouldn't use
> the -t switch and try to set up a traditional chroot instead?

The '-t' allows named to do the chroot() stuff itself, but after initalization,
su much of the hassle with chroot(1) is not needed. 

I guess you can say they are mutually exclusive.


> Richard Parkin
> System Administrator
> CCNA
> Data Center Operations
> LDMI Telecommunications


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