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    <p>I think default configuration file is usually created by the
      package distributor. It depends on how you want to use your named,
      but for basic iterative server running just on your host, empty
      file is enough. Defaults work fine enough for default
      configuration.</p>
    <p>If you run "named -c /dev/null", it will serve the data anyway. I
      think named.conf were not installed, because bind release archive
      does not contain any suitable file. Just because "touch
      /usr/local/etc/named.conf" would create you a working one. I have
      found just named.conf.in under bin/tests/system to configure
      testing instances, but haven't found anything, which could be
      installed for you. We use our own templates on Red Hat packages.</p>
    <p>Cheers,<br>
      Petr<br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/10/23 00:08, Pacific wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:7EEC3A89-9306-4681-9A99-45CEF68EFF63@pacific-holding.com">
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      Hi, thanks for the reply. 
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      <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”.
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        <div class="">The bind docs at <a
            href="https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chapter10.html#build-bind"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chapter10.html#build-bind</a></div>
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        <div class="">in section 10.2 on building show this:</div>
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          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; margin:
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            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;"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><code class="std-iscman literal
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                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
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              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
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              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;"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><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
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              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
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              border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco,
              Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier
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              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
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              Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier
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              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;">$prefix/etc</span></code> and <code
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              Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier
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              100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px
              solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black;
              overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing:
                border-box;">--localstatedir</span></code> defaults to <code
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              border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco,
              Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier
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              100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px
              solid rgb(225, 228, 229); padding: 2px 5px; color: black;
              overflow-x: auto;"><span class="pre" style="box-sizing:
                border-box;">$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>
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              <div class="">On May 9, 2023, at 5:08 PM, Anand Buddhdev
                <<a href="mailto:anandb@ripe.net"
                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">anandb@ripe.net</a>>
                wrote:</div>
              <br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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                <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="">
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                  <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="">
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Petr Menšík
Software Engineer, RHEL
Red Hat, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/">https://www.redhat.com/</a>
PGP: DFCF908DB7C87E8E529925BC4931CA5B6C9FC5CB</pre>
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