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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