[CentOS] Automated YUM update kills DNS

Thu Jun 23 02:56:59 UTC 2005
Maciej Żenczykowski <maze at cela.pl>

probably because they have caching-nameserver installed.

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> We've got several CentOS 3.x systems running DNS that we keep updated
> automatically via YUM.
>
> Recently two of those systems (not all of them) when updating themselves
> to the latest versions of BIND, automatically replaced  /etc/named.conf
> with a new one and saved the old one as /etc/named.conf.rpmsave.
>
> Which of course broke DNS for those servers.
>
> All servers got updated, but only two of them did the rewrite.
>
> Any ideas as to why it might have happed, or how to make sure it doesn't
> happen again?
>
> Hopefully nothing so simplistic as "exclude bind from auto updates"
> though if that's the only answer, we'll take it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff
>