src/etc/namedb/make-localhost, branch main

Bring our default named configuration more in line with current

2007-06-18T05:58:23Z

best practices: 1. The old way of generating the localhost zones was not optimal both because they did not exist by default, and because they were not really aligned with BCP. There is no need to have the dynamic data that the make-localhost script generated, and good reasons to do this more "by the book." 2. In named.conf a. Clean up white space b. Add/clarify a few comments c. Slave zones from the root servers instead of using a hints file. This has several advantages, as described in the comments. d. Significantly revamp the default zones, including the forward localhost zone, and the reverse zones for IPv4 and IPv6 loopback addresses. There are extensive comments describing what is included and why. Interested readers should take the time to review the RFCs mentioned in the comments. There is also relevant information about the motivations for hosting these zones in the "work in progress" Internet-Draft, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-02.txt or its successor. It's also worth noting that a significant number of these empty zones are already included by default in the named binary without any user configuration. e. Because we're including a lot of examples of both local forward zones and slave zones in the default configuration, eliminate some of those examples. 3. Add new localhost-{forward|reverse} zone files, and an "empty" zone to support the changes in 2.d. above. The empty zone file isn't really empty in order to avoid a warning from BIND about a zone file that doesn't contain any A or AAAA records.

Create a named chroot directory structure in /var/named, and use it

2004-09-28T09:46:00Z

by default when named is enabled. Also, improve our default directory layout by creating /var/named/etc/namedb/{master|slave} directories, and use the former for the generated localhost* files. Rather than using pax to copy device entries, mount devfs in the chroot directory. There may be some corner cases where things need to be adjusted, but overall this structure has been well tested on a production network, and should serve the needs of the vast majority of users. UPDATING has instructions on how to do the conversion for those with existing configurations.

Do not taint ::/124 for localhost reverse table.

2002-01-22T17:22:41Z

o Add a PATH statement to the beginning of make-localhost, making it

2000-11-29T19:19:06Z

work right when the administrator has modified their runtime environment in a manner not anticipated by our script. Requested by: Tom Maher

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

1999-08-27T23:37:10Z

Add Id keyword

1998-09-13T23:11:13Z

Make "make-localhost" Y2K safe by using "date +%Y" instead of "date +%y"

1997-08-11T04:06:49Z

to pick the serial number. PR: misc/3465 Submitted by: sjr1@flash.net (Stephen J. Roznowski)

Update root NS cache.

1995-03-21T16:33:45Z

Delete bogus localhost.rev. Add prototype localhost.rev and a script to create it automatically. (NB to installl people: you should ask ``do you have a full-time connection o the Internet?'', run this script, and enable named if the answer is yes.)