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Article:		Implementing BIND on Mac OS X
Subject:		needs revamp for 10.3
Date:		2004-08-06 06:05:48
From:		jldera
Response to: needs revamp for 10.3
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).

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• 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