<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, thanks for the reply. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For some reason I thought it did install or drop a base bones named.conf file, however, it should have dropped the named binary into /usr/local — which it didn’t do. And none of the other “various BIND 9 libraries”.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The bind docs at <a href="https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chapter10.html#build-bind" class="">https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chapter10.html#build-bind</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">in section 10.2 on building show this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Lato, proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">make</span> <span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">install</span></code> installs <a class="internal reference" href="https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manpages.html#std-iscman-named" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(155, 89, 182); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><code class="std-iscman literal notranslate docutils xref std" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto; font-weight: 700;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">named</span></code></a> and the various BIND 9 libraries. By default, installation is into /usr/local, but this can be changed with the <code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">--prefix</span></code> option when running <code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">configure</span></code>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Lato, proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The option <code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">--sysconfdir</span></code> can be specified to set the directory where configuration files such as <a class="internal reference" href="https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manpages.html#std-iscman-named.conf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(155, 89, 182); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><code class="std-iscman literal notranslate docutils xref std" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto; font-weight: 700;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">named.conf</span></code></a> go by default; <code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">--localstatedir</span></code> can be used to set the default parent directory of<code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">run/named.pid</span></code>. <code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">--sysconfdir</span></code> defaults to <code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">$prefix/etc</span></code> and <code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">--localstatedir</span></code> defaults to <code class="literal notranslate docutils" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black; overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing: border-box;">$prefix/var</span></code>.</p><div>If I’m missing something please let me know - or if you have any suggestions, like just moving the named binary from my temp dir into /usr/local I’d appreciate. Thanks.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 9, 2023, at 5:08 PM, Anand Buddhdev <<a href="mailto:anandb@ripe.net" class="">anandb@ripe.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 09/05/2023 22:23, Pacific wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Pacific,<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Installing bind9 (9.18.14) on macOS Ventura (13.3.1) — install is<br class="">not creating a namedb directory nor can I find a boilerplate named.conf.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">As far as remember, the bind install procedure doesn't create a named.conf.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Anand<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>