Split DNS

[Greg Haygood]

I just went through this ordeal with Solaris and Linux.  You have to add 
the following section to your named.conf:

controls {
         unix "/var/named.external/ndc" perm 0600 owner 0 group 0;
};

you then have to specify this channel when calling ndc.  especially when 
calling restart, ndc just tries to reload the server.  so you have to tell 
it what command to run using the -n option (this isn't documented, but it's 
in the source)  i threw everything into the init.d script to handle all the 
options for me:

<snip>
'restart')
         /usr/local/sbin/ndc -n "$PROG $CONF" -p $PID -c $CHANNEL restart;;
</snip>

email me if you need more info or have problems with this.

-greg

At 09:55 AM 5/17/2000, James Housley wrote:
>I am running a split DNS.  I have the "listen-on" and "pid-file" set for
>each of the two copies.  The problem is that they want to share the same
>ndc= socket.  Is there a way to create different sockets for each?  I
>didn't notice an option in the docs.
>
>JIm
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