BIND 9 in a chroot environment

[Pavel Herrmann]

On Saturday 10 of March 2012 19:18:14 Peter Clark wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm running Fedora 16 and as with Fedora for quite a while it runs BIND in a
> chroot environment. I'm curious if there's any new documentation or
> suggestions on how to configure this properly?  It seems that the libraries
> dlz_bind9.so requires aren't available to it in a chroot environment:
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> Mar 10 19:04:41 c3po named[13784]: dlz_dlopen failed to open library
> '/usr/local/samba/lib/bind9/dlz_bind9.so' - libpopt.so.0: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
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> Libpopt.so.0 is in /lib64. Mounting /lib64 into /var/named/chroot/lib64
> makes this problem go away but I'm sure there's a more elegant solution than
> mounting a whole bunch of system directories into the chroot jail?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> 
> 
> Peter

Hi,

have you tried (hard)linking/copying only the required libs? i imagine there 
would be no other way - isolation is the point of chroot jail

Pavel