Thank you and to everyone who took the time to respond. Your collective input did the trick and I now have bind running successfully through a brew install.
I got pulled into another project and wanted to reply with thanks sooner. Your time is valuable and I sincerely appreciate everyone who took the time to make suggestions. > On May 10, 2023, at 1:39 AM, Greg Choules > <gregchoules+bindus...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > The named binary *could* exist in many places; it depends on the OS. For > example, with a Homebrew install on my Mac it's here: > /usr/local/Cellar/bind/9.18.14/sbin/named because of this build parameter: > --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/bind/9.18.14 > It's linked to from /usr/local/opt/bind/sbin/named, for convenience. > > I don't recall whether you get an example "named.conf" Mine is here, by the > way: > /usr/local/etc/bind/named.conf because of this build parameter: > --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/bind > > Again, search for a named.conf and if you don't have one, 'touch' it to > create it then try running it. By default it doesn't need to contain > anything, just exist. The built-in defaults are enough to get a server > running. > As you start to customise your config, keep an eye on the log, which will > tell you whether named starts or not and if not, why. Then you can correct > errors and try again. > > I don't think it should matter that artefacts from a previous install attempt > are hanging around. But before you try installing it another way I would > search for files called "named": > sudo find / -name named > and see if you have a binary. In my case: > %file /usr/local/sbin/named > /usr/local/sbin/named: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 > > If you find an executable, do <path>/named -V (uppercase V), which will print > a summary of how it was built. > Similarly <path>/named -C (uppercase) will print the defaults. > > Hope this helps. > Greg > > > On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 05:55, Pacific <i...@pacific-holding.com > <mailto:i...@pacific-holding.com>> wrote: > Hi, thanks for the reply. > > For some reason I thought it did install or drop a base bones named.conf > file, however, it should have dropped the named binary into /usr/local — > which it didn’t do. And none of the other “various BIND 9 libraries”. > > The bind docs at > https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chapter10.html#build-bind > <https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chapter10.html#build-bind> > > in section 10.2 on building show this: > > make install installs named > <https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manpages.html#std-iscman-named> and > the various BIND 9 libraries. By default, installation is into /usr/local, > but this can be changed with the --prefix option when running configure. > > The option --sysconfdir can be specified to set the directory where > configuration files such as named.conf > <https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manpages.html#std-iscman-named.conf> > go by default; --localstatedir can be used to set the default parent > directory ofrun/named.pid. --sysconfdir defaults to $prefix/etc and > --localstatedir defaults to $prefix/var. > > If I’m missing something please let me know - or if you have any suggestions, > like just moving the named binary from my temp dir into /usr/local I’d > appreciate. Thanks. > >> On May 9, 2023, at 5:08 PM, Anand Buddhdev <ana...@ripe.net >> <mailto:ana...@ripe.net>> wrote: >> >> On 09/05/2023 22:23, Pacific wrote: >> >> Hi Pacific, >> >>> Installing bind9 (9.18.14) on macOS Ventura (13.3.1) — install is >>> not creating a namedb directory nor can I find a boilerplate named.conf. >> >> As far as remember, the bind install procedure doesn't create a named.conf. >> >> -- >> Anand > > -- > Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > <https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users> to unsubscribe from this > list > > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. > Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ <https://www.isc.org/contact/> for > more information. > > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org <mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org> > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > <https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users>
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