Re: [webmin-l] Questions on DNS Server management

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 08:02, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have just used Webmin to add some subzones for testing purposes and 
> I discovered some behaviour that I found 'interesting'.
> 
> First, I am running Bind 9.2.4 on Centos 4.2.  It is running Chrooted.
> 
> I am logged into Webmin as root
> 
> If I select 'edit Config file', it brings up /etc/named.conf instead 
> of /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf

Thanks for pointing this out .. that is really a bug, as 'Edit Config
File' page is not respecting your chroot settings.

> When I created a new master zone, it put the zone file in 
> /var/named/chroot/var/named (gee, I thought it was suppose to go into 
> /var/named/chroot/etc?  Of course I may have this one wrong).  But in 
> named.conf (and it did edit the one in /var/named/chroot/etc it 
> specified the file location as: /var/named/zone.file, not 
> /var/named/chroot/var/named/...

That is correct - all the paths in named.conf are relative to the chroot
directory.

> Next I have put all of my zone file definitions in named.custom and 
> have a include "/etc/named.custom" in named.conf (which is really in 
> /var/named/chroot/etc/).  I would really like to have all these added 
> zones also go into named.custom.

To do this, click on the Module Config link and set the 'Add new zones
to file' option to /etc/named.custom

 - Jamie