Bind Newbie Question

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Feb 14 22:56:36 UTC 2000


In article <38A87F4F.FAAB4127 at daimlerchrysler.com>,
Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>staalejg wrote:
>
>> This is really more of a Unix newbie question, but here we go anyway.  What
>> is the preferred way of starting the named daemon upon boot-up?  I am
>> running Bind on Solaris 7 x86.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
>I don't know about x86, but on Solaris 7 SPARC, /etc/rc2.d/S72inetsvc looks
>for the existence of the /usr/sbin/in.named binary and /etc/named.boot, and
>will automatically start up the daemon if both exist.

If it really looks for /etc/named.boot, that's a serious bug.  Solaris 7
comes with BIND 8, which uses named.conf, not named.boot.

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