[CentOS] Beware - Yum 3.5 to 3.6 upgrade replaces named.conf

[Michael Rock]

If it is just config files then perhaps even though I
removed the rpm it is still a caching name server
since the config files are unchanged?

Can someone tell me what needs to be removed from
named.conf so it is not a caching named server?

--- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 15:47 -0700, Craig White
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:26 -0600, Johnny Hughes
> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 13:47 -0800, Michael Rock
> wrote:
> > > > I am sure I never specifically installed the
> caching
> > > > name server but a rpm -q caching-nameserver
> yields
> > > > version 7.3-3_EL3.
> > > > 
> > > > I usually just select the DNS option during
> the GUI
> > > > install and look to make sure bind is listed
> (perhaps
> > > > the caching name server is automatically
> checked). 
> > > > There after I ended up editing the named.conf
> or used
> > > > webmin that in turn edited the named.conf.
> > > > 
> > > > So ultimately I some how ended up with a
> caching name
> > > > server I do not need.  So if I got this right 
> > > > 
> > > > 1. remove rpm -e caching-nameserver
> > > > 2. copy my zones from named.conf-rpmsave to
> > > > named.custom
> > > > 3. do not use webmin since it edits named.conf
> or
> > > > reconfigure it to edit named.custom
> > > > 
> > > > Should anything be specifically removed from
> > > > named.conf or named.custom having to do with
> the
> > > > caching name server?
> > > 
> > > named.conf is OK for the config file ... it
> won't get changed on future
> > > updates
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Did I miss anything here?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks guys.
> > ----
> > probably a bugzilla entry to upstream provider to
> maybe create an
> > 'artificial' conflict between the 2 packages so
> that you can't install
> > both accidentally.
> > 
> 
> caching-nameserver is just the config files ... it
> requires bind to be
> installed too
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