Hi Cricket,
Thanks a lot for the response. But is there a location where we can specify
the location of /etc/named.conf as "/etc/namedb/named.conf".
I'd apprecaite your suggestions.
Thanks,
Sudhakar
-----Original Message-----
Behalf Of Cricket Liu
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Specifying a working directory for name server
> I'm trying to install BIND 8.3.3 on a server to act as a secondary DNS
> server on Linux 7.2,but I could not understand where we need to
> specify the working directory for BIND since it was looking for
> named.conf in /etc but I've wanted to put everyting in /etc/namedb.
> I'd be grateful for your comments and suggestions.
In the options statement in named.conf:
options {
directory "/etc/namedb";
};
cricket
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