--- Maciej ¯enczykowski <maze at cela.pl> wrote: These may sound like really simple questions but I am questioning my basic beliefs since just learning now that for years I have been incorrectly configuring bind through named.conf and just found out I had a caching-dns rpm installed but did not know it. > I don't think it's a matter of what needs to be > removed, but rather what > needs to be added - zone declarations need to be > added both in the main > configuration file and their respective files... > But if that is the case and the rpm is just configuration files it would seem I was not running a caching-name server after all. Other than my domains nothing here is related to the caching-dns server? I need named.ca so my primary can contact root servers and localhost is normal correct? controls { inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; }; }; zone "." { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "localhost" { allow-update { none; }; type master; file "localhost.zone"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { allow-update { none; }; type master; file "named.local"; }; > Cheers, > MaZe. > > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Michael Rock wrote: > > > 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 > >>> _______________________________________________ > >> CentOS mailing list > >> CentOS at centos.org > >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >> > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in > one click. > > http://farechase.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs