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Re: chroot bind?



On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:25:14PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> Because I was following the instructions at
> http://www.psionic.com/papers/dns/linux-dns which suggests named and
> named-xfer should go there.  I decided to throw the rest in there too. :-)

This is wrong.

> 
> But if we don't need them there we should definitely take them out.

Both bind4 (default) and bind8 (from ports) in Openbsd have only
named-xfer in /var/named/.


> Because it is a non-standard /var directory, I thought it would be helpful
> to name it after the package it belonged to.

True, but as Ethan says "is not really secure, only better."   Its not a
biggie though.

Nicholas



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