Perry E. Metzger said:

>Could someone explain to me why it is that our named looks in
>/etc/named.conf for a named.conf file, but our default named.conf file
>ships in /etc/namedb/named.conf?

The default behavior of BIND, as shipped from isc.org, is to look for
/etc/named.conf.

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