Mon, 24 Jan 2005
bind9 init script update
I’ve been re-visiting my bind9 init scripts now that some time has passed and
I’ve had them in production for about 6 months or so. I’ve changed the chroot
to use a tmpfs filesystem instead of an ext2 loopback; this makes some
error cases easier to handle, as well as simplifying the script by quite a bit.
The downside to using tmpfs is that all changes made by named to the zone
files are lost when the machine restarts; this is not a safe config to use if
you are using Dynamic DNS.
The new init script and default file: