repository for zone files

[Greg Whynott]

they (the distro maintainers) could not agree to put anything in the same place if the worlds sanity depended on it.

/var/named
/srv/bind
/etc/bind
/var/lib/named
/usr/local/named

it's all over the place.   myself i just create links from /var/named (which is where I think it was found on most commercial UNIX's I've used,  IRIX admin here..) to wherever they decided to stick it.  That being said,  if you build it from source (which I'd be inclined to do if not using a linux wiht a support contract),  you can pass the path to configure and place it anywhere you wish with zero functionally loss.

its a bunch of "my way makes sense,  i'll pee in this corner,  its mine now).

its UNIX fragmentation all over again.  8)


<rant off,  sorry>
-g



On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Michael Sinatra wrote:

> On 09/23/10 12:53, Stewart Dean wrote:
>> On AIX, I'm used to /etc/dns.  CentOS seems to place in /var/named.  Is
>> there any blessed, bestofallpossibleworlds place for the zone files. I'm
>> moving our DNS from from AIX to CentOS/Fedora. I'm inclined to create
>> the /etc/dns dir but maybe it'd be better to put it in
>> /var/named.....Comments, brickbats?
> 
> I have always found it to be a good idea to do what the OS wants.  Many 
> OSes now are set up to run bind in a chroot jail (a good thing), but 
> this requires a specific directory structure.  If your OS has already 
> set that up (and if the startup scripts work with that structure), then 
> it's best to keep them that way.  Probably the ideal thing to do is use 
> the OS defaults and then symlink your previous directory structure to 
> the OS defaults as necessary to maintain compatibility with your 
> in-house scripts and processes.
> 
> michael
> 
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