[Techtalk] Bind DNS issues...

[Wim De Smet]

On 7/31/06, Mary <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org> wrote:
> But silently or even semi-silently moving it to a new location and
> continuing to "work" is rather naughty. I like it to do one of two
> things:
>  1. refuse to start if it notices that /etc/named.conf still exists
>  2. log copious errors while /etc/named.conf still exists
>
> That way, you don't get this "oh, I left my old config in the old place"
> debugging problem, which I had with DHCP once. Could be worth a bug
> report Walt.
>

That would probably the way Debian would handle something like this.
Gentoo seems to prefer breaking things to adding to the maintainer
scripts. I'm not a big fan of it because of stuff like this.

greets,
Wim