Specifying a working directory for name server

Cricket Liu cricket at menandmice.com
Wed Nov 13 19:35:11 UTC 2002


sudhakar wrote:
> I'm trying to install BIND 8.3.3 on a server to act as a secondary DNS
> server on Linux 7.2,but I could not understand where we need to
> specify the working directory for BIND since it was looking for
> named.conf in /etc but I've wanted to put everyting in /etc/namedb.
> I'd be grateful for your comments and suggestions.

In the options statement in named.conf:

options {
    directory "/etc/namedb";
};

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