[CentOS] Adding Bind to a workstation build

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 8 21:11:26 UTC 2006


Robert Moskowitz wrote:
[snip]
>> Group: DNS Name Server
>> Required Groups:
>> Base
>> Mandatory Packages:
>> bind
>> Default Packages:
>> caching-nameserver
>> bind-chroot
>>
>> # yum groupinstall "DNS Name Server"
>>
>>
>> Perhaps?
>>
>
> looks like a winner.  Everything looks like it is there now.....

Unless you are planning for your bind server to be _only_ a caching
nameserver (i.e. it doesn't have any zones of it's own), don't install the
caching-nameserver RPM.  Doing so will cause your zone files to be
replaced every time the caching-nameserver RPM is updated.



-- 
William Hooper




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