31 Oct 08 Run named within FreeBSD Jail
I spent some time this afternoon trying to setup named (BIND 9.5) within a FreeBSD jail for internal use. I ran into an issue where it was unable to mount devfs and failed on me. After a little bit of digging I found a solution.
This is the error that was reported (see link):
/etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: devfs_domount(): Unable to mount devfs on /var/named/dev
devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Operation not permitted
devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Operation not permitted
In a nutshell, add the following line to the jail /etc/rc.conf and you should be OK.
named_chrootdir=""
Yes, this means that you’re not running named within a chroot like it would by default but remember its in a jail anyway–a really fancy, hardened chroot.
