"make-localhost" not there (DNS/named setup on 7.0)

[Matthew Seaman]

Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After installing FreeBSD 7.0 (AMD64-version) on a new machine wanted
> to set up a caching DNS.
> 
> As per the handbook
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html)
> I wanted to run "make-localhost" in order to set up the configuration
> files. But the script "make-localhost" isn't there:
> 
> $ pwd
> /etc/namedb
> $ ls -l
> total 22
> drwxr-xr-x  2 bind  wheel    512 Feb 24 10:39 dynamic
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Mar 17 12:50 master
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  11259 Mar 17 16:01 named.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2963 Mar 17 16:01 named.root
> drwxr-xr-x  2 bind  wheel    512 Feb 24 10:39 slave
> $ 
> 
> Not in this directory, nor anywhere else:
> 
> # find / -name make-localhost 
> # 
> 
> First I thought I did something wrong so I set up another machine with
> the AMD64-version of 7.0, but alas - same result - again
> "make-localhost" isn't there.  
> 
> Has anybody else seen this behavior? Is the handbook wrong wrt setup
> of named on a AMD64-system?
> 
> Thanks much in advance for any clue,
> -ewald

The handbook is slightly out of date and the 'make-localhost' script
is now history.  Instead, the system comes with pre-installed 
/etc/namedb/master/localhost-forward.db and .../localhost-reverse.db
zone files and the appropriate configuration shown in the example
named.conf file.  Basically, ignore the paragraph in the handbook
that says 'run make-localhost' and nowadays base your named.conf on the
sample configuration supplied with the system rather than the examples shown
in the handbook.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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