CentOS5: Error starting bind using chroot

Ghostwheel · 02-04-2008, 11:49 AM

The error I am getting:

Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: invalid file
[FAILED]

The setup:

CentOS 5, latest updates

/etc/named.conf
/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf //symbolic link to above
/var/named/chroot/var/named/* //Zone files

named.conf options section:

options
{
directory "/var/named";
pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
check-names response ignore;
transfers-per-ns 2;
transfers-in 10;
max-transfer-time-in 90;
cleaning-interval 60;
allow-transfer { <my server's IP's> };
};

The story:

I am moving my dns servers to new hardware and I thought I would incorporate chroot jail for some added protection. The configs have come from my currently working DNS servers. The only changes I have made is to move the zone files into a more standard place and changed named.conf to reflect that.

Any ideas? I have tried changing the directory entry to be absolute from root rather than relative from chroot but that didn't work either. I would be happy to provide any other necessary info.

Thanks!

frndrfoe · 02-04-2008, 12:42 PM

From what I understand...
You say that /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf is a symlink to /etc/named.conf
It should be the other way around unless I am confused.
Here is what I have working on RHEL4 machine running BIND 9.2.4

Code:

# ls -l /etc/named.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 32 Nov 28 22:33 /etc/named.conf -> /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf

]# ls -l /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root named 2415 Nov  5 09:15 /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf

then again maybe I am misunderstanding.

Ghostwheel · 02-04-2008, 12:48 PM

That fixed it. Thank you for the help!!