What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind

[Harshith Mulky]

Hello,


When installing bind, the following 2 are installed


bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6.x86_64


What is the need of this bind-chroot?



I see all files in /var/named path are softlinks to /var/named/chroot/var/named


and


/etc/named.conf is softlink to /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf




What is this chroot binding? And why is this chroot Binding Required?



Can the named server function without this chroot Binding?



Thanks

Harshith
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