repository for zone files

Fri Sep 24 14:53:19 UTC 2010

Quoting "Lightner, Jeff" <jlightner at water.com>:

> Technical note: I said "Netware" not "Novell".  As you note Novell is
> now doing SuSE Linux.
>
> I believe there are still people using Netware but then again there are
> probably still people using CP/M somewhere.  :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org
> [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf
> Of dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:24 AM
> To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: RE: repository for zone files
>
> Quoting "Lightner, Jeff" <jlightner at water.com>:
>
>> Up until Bill came out with NT with the stated intention of killing
> UNIX
>> I was somewhat of an M$ fan (over Apple that is).   All he really
>> succeeded in killing was Netware.  Now years later Apple is running a
>> UNIX based OS - go figure.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org
>> [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On
> Behalf
>> Of Stewart Dean
>> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:48 AM
>> To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
>> Subject: Re: repository for zone files
>>
>> My thanks to everyone that answered for their wit and wisdom, both of
>> which are
>> good to find when joining a list.  /var/named it is.
>>
>>> its UNIX fragmentation all over again.  8)
>>
>> <grin>  Remember when Windows NT was begun as the Great White Hope
> that
>> would
>> have all the functionality (and more!) of Unix, but would have a
> Common
>> Flag and
>> Parm Convention so you wouldn't have to learn a different one for
> every
>> different command?
>>
>>
>> On 9/23/2010 4:14 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
>>> they (the distro maintainers) could not agree to put anything in the
>> same place if the worlds sanity depended on it.
>>>
>>> /var/named
>>> /srv/bind
>>> /etc/bind
>>> /var/lib/named
>>> /usr/local/named
>>>
>>> it's all over the place.   myself i just create links from /var/named
>> (which is where I think it was found on most commercial UNIX's I've
>> used,  IRIX admin here..) to wherever they decided to stick it.  That
>> being said,  if you build it from source (which I'd be inclined to do
> if
>> not using a linux wiht a support contract),  you can pass the path to
>> configure and place it anywhere you wish with zero functionally loss.
>>>
>>> its a bunch of "my way makes sense,  i'll pee in this corner,  its
>> mine now).
>>>
>>> its UNIX fragmentation all over again.  8)
>>>
>>>
>>> <rant off,  sorry>
>>> -g
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Michael Sinatra wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09/23/10 12:53, Stewart Dean wrote:
>>>>> On AIX, I'm used to /etc/dns.  CentOS seems to place in /var/named.
>> Is
>>>>> there any blessed, bestofallpossibleworlds place for the zone
> files.
>> I'm
>>>>> moving our DNS from from AIX to CentOS/Fedora. I'm inclined to
>> create
>>>>> the /etc/dns dir but maybe it'd be better to put it in
>>>>> /var/named.....Comments, brickbats?
>>>> I have always found it to be a good idea to do what the OS wants.
>> Many
>>>> OSes now are set up to run bind in a chroot jail (a good thing), but
>>>> this requires a specific directory structure.  If your OS has
> already
>>>> set that up (and if the startup scripts work with that structure),
>> then
>>>> it's best to keep them that way.  Probably the ideal thing to do is
>> use
>>>> the OS defaults and then symlink your previous directory structure
> to
>>>> the OS defaults as necessary to maintain compatibility with your
>>>> in-house scripts and processes.
>>>>
>>>> michael
>>>>
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>> "One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human
> being."
>> - May
>> Sarton
>> Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504
>> sdean at bard.edu
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>
> Netware isnt dead, its just linux now, lol.
>
>
>
> --
> Dwayne Hottinger
> Network Administrator
> Harrisonburg City Public Schools
>
> "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
> -- Albert Einstein
>
> "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of
> moral
> crisis, preserved their neutrality."
> -- Dante
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Aye, and I still have quite a few netware 6.5 file servers.  no issues  
with them at all.  I am being forced out because of client issues and  
Novell decision to eol it.

-- 
Dwayne Hottinger
Network Administrator
Harrisonburg City Public Schools

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-- Albert Einstein

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral
crisis, preserved their neutrality."
-- Dante