I finally got it working.  One of the SysAdmins at work helped me out.  I
was doing a number of things wrong, one of which was just running 'named'
instead of using a named user with 'named -u named'.

Anyway, thanks for your help

Bob


----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Fleming <pfleming@infomagic.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: Named DNS question


> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Bob Cober wrote:
>
> I see you used the gui to put this file together, when I did that I had
> problems. I decided to manually edit /etc/named.conf myself. I commented
> out the section for named.ca... in Bind 8 it had all the top level DNS
> servers and was used as a hint file, servers your machine would query in
> the search for a machine name. In the default install of RH 7.1, this file
> is blank, I have left it blank and commented the section:
>
> zone "." {
> type hint;
> file "named.ca";
> };
>
> If you have included all of your DNS files from /var/named, I see that you
> are not loading the zone VLANDDNS.zone. This does not look like a problem.
> I just noticed that you have called the zone dns.vlan.sic... if your
> network name is vlan.sic, then change that in named.conf to match, then
> change the SOA field in dns.vlan.sic.zone to 'vlan.sic'
>
> HTH
> Patrick
>
>
>
> > I'm still having DNS problems:
> >
> > I have attached my configuration.
> >
> > named.run is the output.
> >
> > Thanks again for any help...
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Patrick Fleming <pfleming@infomagic.net>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: Named DNS question
> >
> >
> > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bob Cober wrote:
> > >
> > > > Please help out a DNS/Bind newbie--
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to configure bind 9 on a bare RH7.1 box at work for our
> > > > development vlan.  The vlan is not accessible from the outside, and
this
> > > > will be the only DNS server in it.  Do I have to configure a
named.ca
> > file?
> > > > Everytime I start without the cache file defined at all (root="."),
> > named
> > > > starts up and then shuts down.  Should I set-up the .ca file to
point to
> > the
> > > > dns server itself?
> > >
> > > You can comment out anything in /etc/named.conf that has to do with
> > > outside networks (assuming that you only need to see the lan and the
DNS
> > > machine is only for the lan)
> > > run tail -f /var/log/messages in a term window and watch what happens
when
> > > you restart named - I usually issue the command:
> > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S55named restart
> > > Bind has gotten more picky recently in the move to more security.
> > > Post any errors to the list if Bind doesn't start and run.
> > > Patrick
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for any help
> > > > Bob
> > > >
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