Problem on installing/config bind

[Kevin Darcy]

Stephen Liu wrote:
> --- Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
>
>   
>>>> Did you set prefix to
>>>> /usr/local/bind or etcdir to /usr/local/bind/etc?
>>>>
>>>> named will by default search in directories you configured at
>>>>         
>> compile
>>     
>>>> time.
>>>>         
>> On 29.10.08 23:09, Stephen Liu wrote:
>>     
>>> xen03:/usr/local/src/bind-9.5.0#./configure
>>>       
>> --prefix=/usr/local/bind
>>
>> in such case, named will work in /usr/local/bind and search for
>> config file
>> in /ust/local/bind/etc.
>>
>> If you chroot to /usr/local/bind, named will search for default
>> config file
>> /usr/local/bind/usr/local/bind/etc/named.conf, unless you provide any
>> with
>> "-c" command line option, and for other files in
>> /usr/local/bind/usr/local/bind/etc/
>>
>> (chrootdir/prefixdir/...).
>>
>> So now you need to specify named.conf file (which you already do) and
>> have
>> to use "directory" option in the config file for other files not to
>> be
>> searched in /usr/local/bind/usr/local/bind/etc/.
>>     
>
>
> Noted and thanks.
>
>
> But I can't find;
>
> # ls /usr/local/bind/usr/local/bind/etc/
> ls: /usr/local/bind/usr/local/bind/etc/: No such file or directory
>
>
> # ls /usr/local/bind/usr/local
> ls: /usr/local/bind/usr/local: No such file or directory
>
> # ls /usr/local/bind/usr/
> ls: /usr/local/bind/usr/: No such file or directory
>
> # ls /usr/local/bind
> bin  dev  etc  include  lib  man  namedb  sbin  share  var
>   
Stephen,
              Do you understand that the directory structure is 
*yours*to*decide*? You can structure it any way you want through the 
"prefix"compile-time option, the "directory" config-file option, and/or 
the -t/-c run-time options. No-one can tell you that you *must* put 
things in a certain directory, you decide this for yourself.

Matus has described above the rules that named uses for constructing 
pathnames. Armed with that information, now you need to decide how you 
want to organize things within the filesystem hierarchy. Different 
people do it different ways.
>
> The default directory is;
>
> # ls /usr/local/bind/etc/
> localtime
> named.conf  
> named.root
>
>
> I'm still searching around whether bind-9.5.0 needs rdnc.key.  If YES
> then how to create it.  Any advice?  TIA
>   
You need _some_ repository for the rndc key if you intend to use rndc to 
control your nameserver. Check the "Tools for Use With the Name Server 
Daemon" section of the ARM for some choices on how to setup and 
configure rndc.

                                                                         
                     - Kevin