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

[Robert M. <rg...@ht...>]

At 12:25 AM 3/7/2006, Jamie Cameron wrote:
>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.

Wow, I found a bug!


> > 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.

I will probably wait to I get home (at IEEE 802 plenary in Denver 
this week) to get everything straightened out.

> > 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

Ah Ha!

I could use my SSH connection to clean this all up, but it is working 
enough for now...