[Centos] bind and 3.4

Wed Jan 12 15:02:54 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Wed, January 12, 2005 8:02 am, Johnny Hughes said:
>
> On Wed, January 12, 2005 7:51 am, Lance Davis said:
>> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> > This is an upstream issue ... AND ... according to redhat, you
>>> shouldn't
>>> > have caching-nameserver installed on a DNS server that is anything
>>> other
>>> > than a caching-nameserver :).  It is indeed the caching-nameserver
>>> package
>>> > that is causing the issue.
>>> >
>>>
>>> As further clarification, I point exactly to the post:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143558#c9
>>>
>>> I think you should put the new caching-nameserver back into the U4
>>> directories ... this will happen anytime redhat issues an update to
>>> caching-nameserver and is exactly by design.
>>>
>>> If you have DNS zones, remove caching-nameserver from that box...it is
>>> not
>>> a caching-nameserver any longer
>>
>> Well I am also going by a post from parsley to the tao mailing list :-
>>
>> http://mailman.taolinux.org/pipermail/tao-i386/2005-January/000104.html
>>
>> I dont think it is right for it to kill a working nameserver on an
>> update,
>> whether or not people have it installed by mistake - ie if it is already
>> installed and the config files have been changd and the thing is
>> running,
>> they should not be removed and the thing stopped - IMHO
>>
>> Lance
>>
>> --
> I agree, _BUT_ the guy at RedHat is right ... The purpose of
> caching-nameserver is to setup a "caching-only-DNS" box ... the only way
> to setup a "caching-only-DNS" box is to remove the current named.conf file
> and replace it with a new one that defines it as a "caching-only-DNS" box
> :)
>
> The lesson learned is ... once you setup your box as a DNS zone control
> box, backup the named.conf file and remove the package caching-nameserver
> ... OR ... don't install it in the first place.
>
> My guide has been updated to remove the caching-nameserver package after
> finishing zone setup :).

Since RedHat is probably not going to change the behavior of the
caching-nameserver package...what do you want to do with that package now?

The options are:
(1) put it back as is ... this is an upstream issue (and put an entry
about not using caching-nameserver on DNS Zone controller boxes in the
FAQ).

(2) File a bug report against caching-nameserver at RedHat and see what
they say, leaving the current caching-nameserver update in testing.

(3) Change the package specfile so that it behaves the way we think it
should.

Personally, I think we should do #1 ... or maybe #2, which will probably
be result in RedHat saying "Don't use caching-nameserver on a DNS Zone
controller box" ... which they already said in the comment that I pointed
to.

That would leave us with options #1 and #3 ...

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes