Dynamic DNS and failed journal

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Jul 31 09:27:22 UTC 2006


Brian Chadwick wrote:
> Thanks for your comment Paul
> 
> The thing is, when bind chroots, it should have writeable access to its 
> own /var/named, which as far as the host is concerned, is actually 
> /var/named/chroot/var/named.

Why should it have write access there? It doesn't by default, and 
doesn't normally need it (remember that bind is running as user named, 
not as root).

> its needs to know where to load its zone information from, ie. 
> /var/named, then chroots.

No, it chroots first. So you should put your DDNS zone file in 
/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves (I expect you have a symlink 
/var/named/slaves -> /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves btw).

> I cant see how that should be a problem for bind to write to its own 
> /var/named directory. Anyway I tried it, and changed options directory 
> /var/named to /var/named/slaves .... naturally, bind couldnt find zone 
> information ...

Don't change the main directory in the options clause, change the file 
location for your DDNS zone in its zone clause.

So you have something like:

zone "example.com" IN {
	...
	file "slaves/example.com";
	...
};

Paul.




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