The directory statement

Before installing the Men & Mice DNS Server Controller on a BIND server (not Mac OS X), look through your named.conf and included files for the options statement block and its directory substatement. (If one does not exist, create it.) The installer will assume that the specified directory is dedicated to holding named's configuration files, and will replace it with a rearranged version. If this directory is / or something else important, such as /etc, the installer will refuse to function.

Be sure to point this statement to a directory that can be replaced. You may have to fully-qualify other paths in your named.conf or move files around because of this. If you are unsure what to use, it may be best to create a new directory or use /var/named for this purpose.

It is allowable to have named.conf located in this data directory. This is sometimes the configuration, for example, on FreeBSD, where named.conf and all other configuration and zone files are located in /etc/namedb.