Proper way to run bind9

[Jeremy Chadwick]

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/038061.html

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.                             |

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:20:56AM -0700, Grover Lines wrote:
> Just wondering what the correct rc.conf options should be used for the
> new bind9. I have it working but using the default
> named_pidfile="/var/run/named/pid" I get to many levels of symlinks
> error, so I just made it /var/run/named and it works.
> 
> What I have right now is
> 
> named_enable="YES"
> named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
> 
> I mean I have it running no problem. I just want to have it running
> securly the correct way, and since its new there really are no guides.
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> named_enable="NO"               # Run named, the DNS server (or NO).
> named_program="/usr/sbin/named" # path to named, if you want a different
> one.
> named_flags="-u bind"           # Flags for named
> named_pidfile="/var/run/named/pid" # Must set this in named.conf as well
> named_chrootdir=""              # Chroot directory (or "" not to auto-
> chroot it)
> named_chroot_autoupdate="YES"   # Automatically install/update chrooted
>                                 # components of named.
> See /etc/rc.d/named.
> named_symlink_enable="YES"      # Symlink the chrooted pid file
> 
> --
> 
> Grover Lines
> 
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