On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Andreas Maus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > While configuring named on my sweet new Soekris 5501 I discovered > a little *uhm* misconfiguration (I would not call it a bug). > > By default the permissions of /var/named/master is set to 0755 > and owned by root:wheel. named runs in the chroot /var/named > with the user named, group named. > > For most operations this permission/ownership is sufficient. > But if you try to use dynamic updates named will fail to create > the required "journals": > > 15-Jun-2008 16:31:29.885 zone internal.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org/IN: sending > notifies (serial 200806131) > 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.278 client 192.168.254.202#1025: updating zone > '11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org/IN': adding an RR at > 'nibbler.11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org' A > 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.279 client 192.168.254.202#1025: updating zone > '11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org/IN': adding an RR at > 'nibbler.11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org' TXT > 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.280 journal file master/11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org.jnl > does not exist, creating it > 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.280 master/11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org.jnl: create: > permission denied > 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.280 client 192.168.254.202#1025: updating zone > '11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org/IN': error: journal open failed: unexpected > error > > and dynmic updates will not work. > > Simple fix: > > chown named /var/named/master > > Is this a known issue? At least the permissions of /var/named/master > is root:wheel since 4.1 (I am using 4.3 right now). > > Perhaps can be fixed in 4.4 or is there a special reason to set > /var/named/master to root:wheel?
Hello, A quick search of the archives yielded these results* (among others): In summary, the named(8) in the base install doesn't support dynamic dns updates. You will have to install one from ports to get that particular functionality. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. --Jamie * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109755604901842&w=2 * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115312797220810&w=2 * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115296366703096&w=2 * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=117662121618527&w=2
