Jim Perrin wrote:
This is not the best advice. This will mean that he's installing bind built from source, which will not get him the updates, QA, patches etc of the bind that ship with the distro. It also means that the system has no record of the source install, and that he will have to update by hand and follow the site on his own for updates etc.
Sticking with the bind from centos is the best bet. The bind-chroot does create a chroot'd bind environment, and works just fine. The packages are QA'd and updates are available with minimal effort.
Building from source that which is already provided by the distribution is a BAD IDEA.
I was simply suggesting that he check there for documentation.
I had intended to link directly to the html docs, but apparently they framed them and I didn't notice.
This is the link I was intending to provide:
http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm93/index.php
I was simply suggesting that he check there for documentation.
Ah, that's okay then. I retract my previous verbal abuse :-P
I had intended to link directly to the html docs, but apparently they framed them and I didn't notice.
Proving once again that no matter where you are in the world, frames suck!
This is the link I was intending to provide:
That's some quality advice there.
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