I am trying to migrate from CentOS5.5 64 bit to a new Scientific Linux 6.1 server (64 bit) with bind-chroot, bind, bind-utils ect installed.

The new 6.1 server has this directory layout:

[root@ns2 etc]# pwd
/var/named/chroot/etc
[root@ns2 etc]# ls -l
total 12
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3543 Nov 28 10:15 localtime
drwxr-x---. 2 root named 4096 Nov 16 12:09 named (directory created in 6.1)
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Nov 28 10:15 pki
[root@ns2 etc]# cd named/
[root@ns2 named]# pwd
/var/named/chroot/etc/named


from the old CentOS 5.5 server

named

[root@ns2 etc]# pwd
/var/named/chroot/etc
[root@ns2 etc]# ls -l
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3543 Jul 20 2010 localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root named 51631 Oct 13 10:53 named.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root named 174 Aug 24 2010 rndc.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root named 76 Oct 7 2010 rndc.key

I have a symlink to /etc/named.conf

do I create a symlink in the following on the new 6.1 server?

[root@ns2 named]# pwd
/var/named/chroot/etc/named

to [root@ns2 named]# pwd
/etc/named

[root@ns2 named]# pwd
/var/named/chroot/etc/named

I guess my question is do I place the named.conf file in the new 6.1 server in the following directory?

[root@ns2 named]# pwd
/var/named/chroot/etc/named

and the symlink location as well with the named.conf pointing to the /etc/named/named.conf file

has anyone migrated Centos 5 version to 6 and did they run into any problems or changes with your configs?

In the new 6.1 server

[root@ns2 named]# ls -l ; pwd
total 32
drwxr-x---. 6 root named 4096 Nov 28 10:15 chroot
drwxrwx---. 2 named named 4096 Nov 16 12:09 data
drwxrwx---. 2 named named 4096 Nov 16 12:09 dynamic
-rw-r-----. 1 root named 1892 Feb 18 2008 named.ca
-rw-r-----. 1 root named 152 Dec 15 2009 named.empty
-rw-r-----. 1 root named 152 Jun 21 2007 named.localhost
-rw-r-----. 1 root named 168 Dec 15 2009 named.loopback
drwxrwx---. 2 named named 4096 Nov 16 12:09 slaves
/var/named


since I am running in the chroot environment do I need to delete theses files out of the
/var/named directory

a little confused ???

I created a named.conf file in the following:

[root@ns2 named]# pwd;ls -l
/var/named/chroot/etc/named
total 104
-rw-r--r--. 1 root named 103089 Nov 28 10:58 named.conf


so would I create the symlink in

[root@ns2 named]# pwd;ls
/etc/named

is this right?

plus the command of service named configtest is no longer available either

that command above is nice for testing a config change before it is committed, not sure why it is not in the distro any longer?

When I created the symlink for the named.conf from /var/named/chroot/etc/named/named.conf to /etc/named/named.conf

Has anyone migrated from Centos 5 release to release 6 had any configuration problems?

I am still baffled at where to put the files?

Has anyone migrated from CentOS 5 to 6 with bind?

I can't say I have migrated, but I had set up DNS with CentOS 6.

Whenever there was a problem with "named.conf" the Log file /var/log/messages
has got all the info I needed to resolve it step by step.

So if you have any messages in your Log file, write them here and someone might take a look and help you.


good luck.