[CentOS] New CentOS DNS Server woes

Mon Aug 6 02:03:48 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

centos at swhi.net wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Ray Leventhal wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Aug  5 14:10:08 sunspot named[5263]: dumping master file:
>>>>> /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/tmp-sTsIWElBLR: open: file not 
>>>>> found
>>>>>  
>>>>   
>>> Thanks, Craig.  That sure made sense to do, but seemingly not the crux
>>> of the issue. 
>>
>> If named is running chroot, shouldn't the files be named from its 
>> perspective after the chroot - i.e. /var/named/slaves/* instead of 
>> /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/* like you see them?  What does 
>> your "directory" entry say in named.conf?
>>
> [root at sunspot etc]# pwd
> /var/named/chroot/etc
> [root at sunspot etc]# more named.conf | grep swhi
> zone "swhi.net" { type slave; file 
> "/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/db.swhi.net"; masters { 
> 64.135.16.10; };};
> zone "swhi.us" { type slave; file 
> "/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/db.swhi.us"; masters { 64.135.16.10; 
> };};
> zone "swhi.ws" { type slave; file 
> "/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/db.swhi.ws"; masters { 64.135.16.10; 
> };};
> [root at sunspot etc]#
> 
> 
> Am I understanding that the zone transfer requests should read 
> "/var/named/slaves/db.<domain>.net> {xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;};};
> 
> Thanks, Lee...I appreciate your help
> 

Yes, the filename can be relative to the directory mentioned in the 
options section or absolute, but either way it has to take the chroot 
location into account, so omit the /var/named/chroot part.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com