Re: bin/53652: Change permission of namedb directory

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

The following reply was made to PR bin/53652; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/53652: Change permission of namedb directory
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 14:07:31 -0400

 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