Debian bug report logs - #842
Lies, damn lies, and man pages (;-)

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From: Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>
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Subject: Lies, damn lies, and man pages (;-)
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Package: bind
version: 4.9.3-BETA17
package_revision: 1

I'm struggling with email routing, bind, and all of that as
a first-timer with no local guru.  I've spent the last several
days reading and re-reading man pages, RFCs, /usr/doc materials,
and so forth.  Today, I got to the bookstore and bought O'Reilly's
excellent book "DNS and BIND", which is giving me what I need to
finally begin pulling this together.

While struggling, I noticed the following on the named(8) manpage:

FILES
       /etc/named.boot          name server configuration boot file
       /etc/named.pid           the process id (/var/run/named.pid on newer systems)
       /var/tmp/named.run       debug output
       /var/tmp/named_dump.db   dump of the name server database
       /var/tmp/named.stats     nameserver statistics data

I didn't look for these files until after getting some detail on them
from the O'Reilly book.  After grubbing around on my system for a while,
I found that the actual files on debian systems are /var/run/named.pid,
/var/named/named.run, /var/named/named_dump.db, and (probably -- I
haven't gotten to it yet) /var/named/named.stats.

(I'll add a note that a plug for the O'Reilly book in a
 /usr/doc/net/named/README file would be helpful to first-time
 strugglers with this)

mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)