1장. Setting up and configuring a BIND DNS server

Run the named service without a change-root environment. In this case, SELinux in enforcing mode prevents exploitation of known BIND security vulnerabilities. By default, Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses SELinux in enforcing mode.

Run the named-chroot service in a change-root environment.

By using the change-root feature, administrators can define that the root directory of a process and its sub-processes is different to the / directory. When you start the named-chroot service, BIND switches its root directory to /var/named/chroot/. As a consequence, the service uses mount --bind commands to make the files and directories listed in /etc/named-chroot.files available in /var/named/chroot/, and the process has no access to files outside of /var/named/chroot/.