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Re: chroot bind?



On 21 Apr 2001, Bdale Garbee wrote:

> nj.lee@plumtree.co.nz (Nicholas Lee) writes:
>
> > I'm interesting in doing some work to provide a bind-chroot package.
>
> Are you working with bind 8.X or 9.X?
>

It's based on your 8.2.3 package.

> I've said a couple of times that if someone wants to help figure out a good
> way to make a chroot'ed configuration an option that debhelper could offer
> for the bind9 packages I'd be willing to look at a patch.  So far, everyone
> who has tackled this has done it as a replacement package for 'bind'.  Nothing
> wrong with that, it just has less long-term utility.
>

I've been wary of moving to bind 9 yet, better the devil you know...
Are there huge differences in operation, configuration etc.?

> I have no great inspirations about where to park chroot's, either.  I don't
> think it is well handled, if at all, by current policy.  The buildd machines
> I've looked at mostly use /chroot, but that means nothing.
>

I just put it in /var/secure-bind.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>



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