DNS NEWBIE

[Kevin Darcy]

David Michaels wrote:

>>If you're running UNIX, find where the named executable lives on your
>>server.  The following command should find every instance of it (and
>>anything that even looks like it):
>>
>>find / -name named
>>    
>>
>
>Excuse me if this has been asked a million times... but why does Sun rename the
>binary to in.named? Is this a configure option?
>
That's more of a SunOS/Solaris question than it is a DNS/BIND question, 
since it's not just the "named" daemon binary that gets renamed, it's a 
whole bunch of others as well (e.g. ftpd, telnetd, routed). This is a 
naming convention. Note all of the ROC daemon binaries that are prefixed 
by "rpc", e.g. rpc.nispasswdd. And Sun has been doing this a loooong 
time....

As far as I know, it's not configurable.

                                                                         
                                    - Kevin