Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I need a DNS server in a test environment, so I am adding Bind to my notebook build.
I first did: yum install bind rebooted yum update rebooted
Now I see named as a service I can start.
But when I go to /var/named to edit the files (btw, all I want to do at this point is to fake out a FQDN expected by a piece of gear), none exist.
And I doubt that if I start named it would be properly chrooted (as it was on a server where I selected named as a service to install).
So pointers?
where do I go from here?
You could go here:
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/
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.
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