Questions about new Bind installation

Lisa Casey lisa at jellico.net
Wed Sep 21 13:30:13 UTC 2005


Hi,

I recently set up a FreeBSD 5.3 box and installed Bind 8.4 from ports. The 
named daemon is not starting up automatically when the box reboots and I 
need it to  do so. I added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:

named_enable="YES"
named_program="/usr/sbin/named"
named_flags="-u bind -g bind -c /usr/local/etc/named.conf"

But named still won't start on reboot. I googled some and found this;

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch5/

 which talks about bind installations from ports on FreeBSD 5.3 being 
"non-base" installs and bind installations on FreeBSD 5.3 from a downloaded 
.tar.gz file being a "base" or normal install. The article  goes on to say 
that the difference is the base version is installed in /usr/sbin (and the 
tools in /usr/bin) whereas a normal (non-base) installation is made to 
/usr/local/sbin (and the tools to /usr/local/bin). Finally the standard 
version assumes the named.conf file in /etc/namedb/named.conf whereas a 
non-base install assumes /usr/local/etc/named.conf.

On my system, in /usr/local/sbin I have:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  718728 Sep 15 16:42 named
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    7627 Sep 15 16:42 named-bootconf

This is the date I installed Bind so I assume these files are correct. In 
/usr/sbin, however, I have these:

-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    1388360 Nov  4  2004 named
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    1089112 Nov  4  2004 named-checkconf
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    1040412 Nov  4  2004 named-checkzone
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       1743 Nov  4  2004 named.reconfig
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       1743 Nov  4  2004 named.reload

My question is what are these????

Thanks,

Lisa Casey





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