Women in Technology

Article:		Implementing BIND on Mac OS X
Subject:		Perfect Article
Date:		2003-10-18 21:22:55
From:		anonymous2
I followed this article exactly. Compiled bind9, set up my configuration files, rebooted and BAM! The domain I was setting up worked perfectly. This was on OXX server 10.2.8. Thank you thank you. I have condensed (ahem *stolen*) this article and condensed it into a quick reference quide. (With credits at the bottom). Again.. thank you. Well done. http://www.macnode.com/articles/bind.html

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• needs revamp for 10.3
  2004-08-06 03:40:52  vcoadmin [View]
  
  
  Yes even though it's a year later your guess is right as i've had to get around this erata myself
  i asked this lot to update this and so have others but it falls on deaf ears.
  
  sudo chmod 0755 /system/library/startupitems/bind/bind
  
  Is how it should've read your spoton as the articles instructions send you of to oblivion.
  
  Personally i would like to see this article revisited and redone for Panther users etc
  as this docs good but Vague and partially misleading.
  
  Another thing for those unaware Jaguar/Panther
  have onboard Mailserver capabillities which
  just need to be enabled (saves getting OSX server :P)
  
  Postfix enabler is a handy program also worth a lookin.
  
  Mac OSX has allsorts to offer yet getting it to work is another question alltogether.
  
  I had Bind9.2.3 automaticly starting with
  Panther many moons ago but stuffed if i can get it to do it now this using the articles above methods explained.
  
  Now so far each time i've had to manually start
  the dns through stellardns not handy.
  
  I've now come back here to backtrack and nitpick this method as it's in need of work.
• needs revamp for 10.3
  2004-08-06 06:05:48  Jason Deraleau | [View]
  
  

  
  The majority of the article is still accurate and pertinent. The only parts that may cause some users issue is the section on getting BIND to start automatically. On Panther, it's simply a matter of modifying /etc/hostconfig so that the DNSSERVER line is -YES-.
  

  
  

  
  All of the other information on working with zones and the different types of zones remains true for Panther (and really, all versions of BIND 8 and up).
  

• needs revamp for 10.3
  2006-10-18 12:27:28  ecstreem [View]
  
  
  Needs even more revamp for 10.4. I've been fiddling with Bind trying to install it using this article. I haven't worked out the bugs but I did find a few answers to hurdles I've encoutnered. I couldn't get Bind to autostart using your directions. Because Tiger used launchd, you need to modify:
  
  /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist
  
  Change
  
  <key>Disabled</key>
  <true/>
  
  to
  
  <key>Disable</key>
  <false/>
  
  I found I also had to run:
  
  sudo /usr/sbin/rndc-confgen -a to create the rndc.key file.
  
  The PLIST edit came from:
  
  http://blogs.vislab.usyd.edu.au/index.php/Masa/2006/09/05/bind_on_os_x_tiger
  
  twh