From RHEL to CentOS BIND 9

[isplist at logicore.net]

> I think that you are making this way too complicated.

I don't know that I've made it more complicated but it certainly got that way. 
I'm starting from scratch so it's all clean again.
 
> Remove the bind packages that you have already installed and "yum
> install bind-chroot"
> This will install a chrooted bind in /var/named/chroot/.

Done. I'm running 9.3.3 on the new server. Note that the RPM did not create a 
link in /etc for named.conf but has for rndc.key back to 
/var/named/chroot/etc.
 
> Copy the named.conf from your RHEL primary to
> /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf on the new CentOS box.

Done.
 
> Copy the zones from your RHEL primary to /var/named/chroot/etc/xxx,
> where 'xxx' is the "directory" in global options.

There are no zone files in /var/named/chroot/etc;
# ls -la
total 44
drwxrwx---  2 root named 4096 Dec  5 10:28 .
drwxrwx---  6 root named 4096 Aug  9  2006 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1279 Jun  6  2006 localtime
-rw-r--r--  1 root named 9352 Dec  5 09:29 named.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root named   76 Aug  9  2006 rndc.key

Do you mean in /var/named/chroot/var/named/xx?
There are files in the /var/named/chroot/var/named/ directory and 
/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves directory.

The main zone files are in the slaves directory and a few along with network 
files just above that.

# ls -la
total 72
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root  1413 Apr 24  2007 0
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root  1583 Oct 19 14:01 xx.xx.xx.in-addr.arpa
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root   230 May 25  2007 67.in-addr.arpa
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root  1630 Dec  4 15:26 xxx.com
drwxrwx---  2 named named 4096 Aug 25  2004 data
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root   888 Dec  4 14:50 xxx.net
-r--r--r--  1 root  root   405 Aug 15  2006 localhost.rev
-r--r--r--  1 root  root   284 Jun 15  2001 make-localhost
-r--r--r--  1 root  root     0 Apr 30  2006 xxx.com.lock
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root  2517 Aug  9  2006 named.root
-r--r--r--  1 root  root     0 Apr 30  2006 xxx.com.lock
-r--r--r--  1 root  root   397 Aug 12  2002 PROTO.localhost.rev
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root   698 Apr 24  2007 xxx.com
drwxrwx---  2 named named 4096 Dec  4 14:17 slaves

Mike