CentOS 7 and BIND

[Anthony Radzykewycz]

Thank you for your help. I also got a fresh install working with the
named.service (without configuring). I normally work on my computers
really late at night, so I will look further into it tonight. Thank
you all for your help!!
Anthony Radzykewycz

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr.
<mailing-lists at phoenixinternet.net> wrote:
> Anthony,
> I looked a little further...
> In Centos7 (without chroot, I have not looked at the chroot version), the
> named.conf file is in /etc and not /etc/named.
> The start up file is /usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service which will show
> you what is being called and from where.
>
> I wish I was more help, but I have done very little with CentOS7. All my DNS
> servers are running on CentOS5 and I need to think about replacing them,
> which I would do on CentOS7.
>
> Gilbert
>
>
> On 11/21/2014 12:02 PM, Anthony Radzykewycz wrote:
>>
>> Oh ok. Thank you!! I will start from the beginning again and work on
>> it until I break it or it works. I guess I am lucky in the respect
>> that I am doing all of this from scratch. Thank you for the info and I
>> will let you know if my initial install doesn't start BIND still.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Anthony Radzykewycz
>> <anthony.radzykewycz at gatewaycc.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok. I will also install a VM to try to recreate it. I can attempt to
>>> start the named service right after my install to see if I screwed
>>> something up. Thanks for your help. :-)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr.
>>> <mailing-lists at phoenixinternet.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Anthony,
>>>> I looked at your responses to TJ, Lisa, and myself. What you provided
>>>> does
>>>> not tell me what the issue is. Have you tried starting from scratch?
>>>> Uninstall bind, delete leftover configuration files found in /var/named
>>>> and
>>>> /etc/named, reinstall, and try to start the base configuration with no
>>>> modifications? I am going to create a test environment here and see if I
>>>> can
>>>> get the same issue to appear.
>>>>
>>>> Gilbert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/20/2014 10:00 PM, tjones136 at cox.net wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Anthony,
>>>>>
>>>>> If the chrooted bind on CentOS 7 is anything like the one on RHEL 6,
>>>>> all
>>>>> the files should be relative to the /var/named/chroot directory.  Which
>>>>> would put "/etc/named.conf" at /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf,
>>>>> /var/named
>>>>> would be /var/named/chroot/var/named, and so on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or you could remove the bind-chroot package and see if bind starts in
>>>>> your
>>>>> current configuration.
>>>>>
>>>>> TJ
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---- Anthony Radzykewycz <anthony.radzykewycz at gatewaycc.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>>>       I am trying to get a DNS/DHCP server up and running using CentOS
>>>>>> 7.
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> have modified the /etc/named.conf file and created the zone files. I
>>>>>> attempt to start the named service with 'systemctl start named,' and
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> fails. Upon investigating 'systemctl status named.service,' it shows
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> BIND will not start. BIND is installed on the system. I read quite a
>>>>>> few
>>>>>> forums to no avail. Some were saying that the issue is with the
>>>>>> bind-chroot
>>>>>> package (which I re-installed), another stated that it was SElinux (I
>>>>>> ran
>>>>>> 'restorecon /etc/named.conf' 'touch /.autorelabel' 'reboot'). That
>>>>>> also
>>>>>> did
>>>>>> not resolve the issue. Does anyone have an idea as to why BIND will
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> start?
>>>>>> Anthony Radzykewycz
>>>>>
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