>Hi All:
>
>    Strange problem I am seeing on a number of servers, anyone have
>suggestions on why this is happening and how to fix it?
>
>Problem statement:
>    Installing the bind and bind-utils rpms do not install all of the
>associated files (especially /etc/named.conf)
>

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234508

Apparently this is known and isn't in the works to change.

>Background:
>    SL 5.5 based systems (seeing the same problem on 3 systems at this
>point)
>    X86_64 based machines
>    rpm names:
>       bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
>       bind-libs-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
>
>
>Procedure:
>1) (just to show that /etc/named.conf does not previously exist)
>$ ls -al /etc/named.conf
>ls: /etc/named.conf: No such file or directory
>
>2) (just to show that bind is not yet installed, which doesn't return
>anything)
>$ rpm -q -a | grep -i bind
>
>3) (now, install bind and bind-libs)
>$ rpm -ivh bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
>bind-libs-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
>warning: bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
>NOKEY, key ID 192a7d7d
>Preparing...                ###########################################
>[100%]
>   1:bind-libs              ###########################################
>[ 50%]
>   2:bind                   ###########################################
>[100%]
>
>4) (now that bind and bind-libs are installed, look for /etc/named.conf
>again)
>$ ls -al /etc/named.conf
>ls: /etc/named.conf: No such file or directory
>
>5) (and show that /etc/named is supposed to be one of the files that
>bind installs)
>$ rpm -q -l bind | grep /etc/named.conf
>/etc/named.conf
>/usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.6/sample/etc/named.conf
>
>Further notes:
>    I have tried using the --replacefiles --replacepkgs options on rpm,
>but that didn't seem to help either.
>    I have also tried the new packages under security
>(bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_3.x86_64.rpm and the associated bind-libs), but
>still no /etc/named.conf
>
>thanks for reading this and for any help you can provide,
>
>Paul
>

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