Re: Problems with chrooting bind 9.2.0

[Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:12:36PM +0100, Marcus Frings wrote:
> Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 9:16:48 PM, Reagan Blundell wrote:
>  
> > Feb 13 17:04:40 iridium named[1525]: none:0: open: /etc/bind/rndc.key: \
> >  file not found
> > Its looking for the rndc.key file in /etc/bind/ which would be
> > /chroot/named/etc/bind
> > You have it in /chroot/named/etc - hence it can't find it.
> 
> Well, I tried 3 ways:
> 
> 1) copying it back to the real /etc/bind

This will not work, because named can't see the real /etc/bind
when it's chrooted.

> 2) copying it to /chroot/named/etc/bind

i.e. /chroot/named/etc/bind is a directory containing the file
rndc.key?

This should work.  What do the logs look like now?

> 3) using symbolic links from the chroot jail to /etc/bind

This won't work for the same reason as 1.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>