Compiling BIND9 on CentOS 7

[Bob Harold]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Sean Son <linuxmailinglistsemail at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thank you for your responses guys.  Here is a n00b question: Because this
> new server will be a slave DNS server, do I have to manually copy the zone
> files from the current slave DNS server (The CentOS 5.11) one, or does the
> new server automatically get the zones from the master DNS server?
>
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
It is automatic, and if it does not work, something is wrong.  Copying the
files will only make it harder to debug.  (Unless you have a lot of files
and just want to speed up the process.  But not recommended.)

-- 
Bob Harold



> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Am 27.04.2016 um 17:45 schrieb Matthew Pounsett:
>>
>>> rndc is the command line interface to a running BIND server.  (BIND ==
>>> berkeley internet name domain, rndc == remote name domain controller (or
>>> something to that effect)).  The rndc.conf file must agree with the
>>> named.conf file on where BIND's controller interface is (the controls{};
>>> clause in named.conf) and what key to use for authentication, if any.
>>>
>>> For example, named.conf might have something like this:
>>> controls {
>>>     inet 192.0.2.1 port 953 allow { 192.0.2.100; } keys {"rndc-key"; };
>>> };
>>> While your rndc.conf might have:
>>> options {
>>>     default-key "rndc-key";
>>>     default-server 192.0.2.1;
>>>     default-source-address 192.0.2.100;
>>>     default-port 953;
>>> };
>>>
>>> It sounds to me like the named.service file you mention is probably
>>> generating a default rndc.conf file if one doesn't already exist
>>>
>>
>> no it don't and you don't need to setup rndc at all just for
>> start/stop/reload named, systemd knows the PID and so can send a SIGHUP,
>> works like a charme for many year on nameservers hosting hundrets of zones
>> and running with controls { }; since nobody but the maintaining scripts
>> have a business mangle with named and after that issue "systemctl reload"
>>
>> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named -4 -f -u named
>>
>> ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
>> ExecStop=/usr/bin/kill -TERM $MAINPID
>>
>>
>>
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