Re: bin/53652: Change permission of namedb directory

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Oct 6,  4:15pm, taca%back-street.net@localhost (taca%back-street.net@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: bin/53652: Change permission of namedb directory

| >Number:         53652
| >Category:       bin
| >Synopsis:       Change permisiion of namedb directory
| >Confidential:   no
| >Severity:       serious
| >Priority:       medium
| >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
| >State:          open
| >Class:          change-request
| >Submitter-Id:   net
| >Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 06 16:15:00 +0000 2018
| >Originator:     Takahiro Kambe
| >Release:        NetBSD 8.99.25
| >Organization:
| 	
| >Environment:

This is not a good idea. NetBSD-current comes with bind-9.12 and
a local fix which avoids this issue.

RCS file: /cvsroot/src/external/mpl/bind/dist/lib/dns/view.c,v
revision 1.3
date: 2018-09-12 11:28:42 -0400;  author: christos;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2;  commitid: adpcledHWXK8qPRA;
Put the nta files in a subdirectory instead of requiring the namedb root
directory to be writable by named... Others have expressed the same concern,
but upstream refused: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487823
https://bugs.isc.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=46242

Doesn't this work for you?

christos