From RHEL to CentOS BIND 9

[isplist at logicore.net]

That's what I figured but thought I would ask first :).


On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:47:47 -0600, Baird, Josh wrote:
> The point is to take all of the zones from your current RHEL primary,
> 
> and move them to the same location on your CentOS box.  If they are in
> /var/named/chroot/var/named, fine.  Put them where ever your named.conf
> is looking for them.
> 
> Josh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of isplist at logicore.net
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:32 AM
> To: bind-users
> Subject: RE: From RHEL to CentOS BIND 9
> 
>> I think that you are making this way too complicated.
>> 
> I don't know that I've made it more complicated but it certainly got
> that way.
> I'm starting from scratch so it's all clean again.
> 
>> Remove the bind packages that you have already installed and "yum
>> install bind-chroot"
>> This will install a chrooted bind in /var/named/chroot/.
>> 
> Done. I'm running 9.3.3 on the new server. Note that the RPM did not
> create a
> link in /etc for named.conf but has for rndc.key back to
> /var/named/chroot/etc.
> 
>> Copy the named.conf from your RHEL primary to
>> /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf on the new CentOS box.
>> 
> Done.
> 
>> Copy the zones from your RHEL primary to /var/named/chroot/etc/xxx,
>> where 'xxx' is the "directory" in global options.
>> 
> There are no zone files in /var/named/chroot/etc;
> # ls -la
> total 44
> drwxrwx---  2 root named 4096 Dec  5 10:28 .
> drwxrwx---  6 root named 4096 Aug  9  2006 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1279 Jun  6  2006 localtime
> -rw-r--r--  1 root named 9352 Dec  5 09:29 named.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root named   76 Aug  9  2006 rndc.key
> 
> Do you mean in /var/named/chroot/var/named/xx?
> There are files in the /var/named/chroot/var/named/ directory and
> /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves directory.
> 
> The main zone files are in the slaves directory and a few along with
> network
> files just above that.
> 
> # ls -la
> total 72
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  root  1413 Apr 24  2007 0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  root  1583 Oct 19 14:01 xx.xx.xx.in-addr.arpa
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  root   230 May 25  2007 67.in-addr.arpa
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  root  1630 Dec  4 15:26 xxx.com
> drwxrwx---  2 named named 4096 Aug 25  2004 data
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  root   888 Dec  4 14:50 xxx.net
> -r--r--r--  1 root  root   405 Aug 15  2006 localhost.rev
> -r--r--r--  1 root  root   284 Jun 15  2001 make-localhost
> -r--r--r--  1 root  root     0 Apr 30  2006 xxx.com.lock
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  root  2517 Aug  9  2006 named.root
> -r--r--r--  1 root  root     0 Apr 30  2006 xxx.com.lock
> -r--r--r--  1 root  root   397 Aug 12  2002 PROTO.localhost.rev
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  root   698 Apr 24  2007 xxx.com
> drwxrwx---  2 named named 4096 Dec  4 14:17 slaves
> 
> Mike