BIND inside a jail on FreeBSD 6.0

[patrick]

Thanks, that did the trick. I'm not running this in a jail because I'm
paranoid or anything -- I just need a test environment, and I don't
have an extra machine kicking around. :)

Patrick

On 5/1/06, David Robillard <david.robillard at gmail.com> wrote:

> BIND is trying to setup a chroot(8) before it starts. If you're
> already inside a jail, then IMHO it is a little overkill (i.e. Running
> BIND in a chroot inside a jail).
>
> Check the BIND related values in rc.conf(5). The chroot(8) startup is
> triggered via this one:
>
> named_chrootdir="/var/named"    # Chroot directory (or "" not to auto-chroot it)
>
> So try setting it to
>
> named_chrootdir=""
>
> and it should disable the chroot code from the startup script.
>
> Of course, if you still need to chroot(8) your named(8) install inside
> your jail, then you're at the same point. Consider running another
> jail perhaps? Or use BIND's view feature.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> David
>
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Patrick
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