Frequently Asked Questions about BIND 9
-Copyright © 2004-2010, 2013 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+Copyright © 2004-2010, 2013, 2014 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
+("ISC")
Copyright © 2000-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
What addresses to listen on? For a laptop on the move a lot you may
only want to listen on the loop back interfaces.
- Who do you offer recursive service to? Is there are firewall to
- consider? If so is it stateless or stateful. Are you directly on the
+ To whom do you offer recursive service? Is there a firewall to
+ consider? If so, is it stateless or stateful? Are you directly on the
Internet? Are you on a private network? Are you on a NAT'd network? The
answers to all these questions change how you configure even a caching
name server.
fixing this are to create a /var/run/named directory owned by the named
user and set pid-file to "/var/run/named/named.pid", or set pid-file to
"named.pid", which will put the file in the directory specified by the
- directory option (which, in this case, must be writable by the named
- user).
+ directory option (which, in this case, must be writable by the user
+ named is running as).
Q: I can query the nameserver from the nameserver but not from other
machines. Why?
master file primaries/wireless.ietf56.ietf.org: no owner".
A: This error is produced when a line in the master file contains leading
- white space (tab/space) but the is no current record owner name to
+ white space (tab/space) but there is no current record owner name to
inherit the name from. Usually this is the result of putting white
space before a comment, forgetting the "@" for the SOA record, or
indenting the master file.
you may only want to listen on the loop back interfaces.
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- Who do you offer recursive service to? Is there are firewall
- to consider? If so is it stateless or stateful. Are you
+ To whom do you offer recursive service? Is there a firewall
+ to consider? If so, is it stateless or stateful? Are you
directly on the Internet? Are you on a private network? Are
you on a NAT'd network? The answers
to all these questions change how you configure even a
"/var/run/named/named.pid", or set pid-file to "named.pid",
which will put the file in the directory specified by the
directory option (which, in this case, must be writable by
- the named user).
+ the user named is running as).
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<para>
This error is produced when a line in the master file
- contains leading white space (tab/space) but the is no
+ contains leading white space (tab/space) but there is no
current record owner name to inherit the name from. Usually
this is the result of putting white space before a comment,
forgetting the "@" for the SOA record, or indenting the master