Dynamic update fails with readonly master file
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Dec 20 04:30:51 UTC 2001
>
> Greetings:
>
> I'm using BIND 8.2.3-R on FreeBSD 4.3 and trying to do a dynamic update
> for one domain but the permissions for the master file keep changing to
> read-only (444). Owner/group is bind/bind. If I change perms to 664
> the update goes fine.
Firstly the problem in not to do with the permissions of
the master file. Named does not write to the master file.
It writes a new master file and when that is done it replaces
the old file with the new file using rename(). So long as
the permissions on the directory are correct this will work.
The permissions are read-only so that it becomes harder for
people to manually update the master file.
> I had this working with another domain and didn't see this behavior.
> Same box, same versions. What's going on and what am I missing?
Well without seeing what is being reported it is hard to say.
Mark
> Thanks,
>
> Riley
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