named.conf Default Location?

[Tony Finch]

Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
>
> The manpage for named on machine 1 says that it looks for the named.conf
> by default in /usr/local/etc/namedb.  Machine 2's manpage says it looks
> in /etc/namedb.
>
> Which is correct?  Is the /etc/namedb symlink even needed anymore?

The man pages should be correct, but if you don't trust them you can
verify what really happens in two ways:

(1) Run named -V and it should tell you the arguments to the configure
    script. Look for --sysconfdir or --prefix. These determine where named
    looks for named.conf, as described in the README:

        You may specify the option "--sysconfdir" to set the directory
        where configuration files like "named.conf" go by default,
        and "--localstatedir" to set the default parent directory
        of "run/named.pid".   For backwards compatibility with BIND 8,
        --sysconfdir defaults to "/etc" and --localstatedir defaults to
        "/var" if no --prefix option is given.  If there is a --prefix
        option, sysconfdir defaults to "$prefix/etc" and localstatedir
        defaults to "$prefix/var".

(2) Run:

	strings `which named` | grep named.conf

Tony.
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