[SOLVED] RHEL5 DNS issue - Help me please !!!

[JJAussie]

Hi,
I am new to linux and am running Red Hat 5. I am having problems trying to get DNS working. When I try and start the named service, I am getting the error "rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953:connection refused" . I then get the following errors that pop up in it's own window (in gnome).

named failed. The error was: Stopping named: [60G[[0;31mFAILED[0;39m]

Starting named:

Error in named configuration:

zone localdomain/IN: loading master file localdomain.zone: file not found

_default/localdomain./IN: file not found

zone localhost/IN: loading master file localhost.zone: file not found

_default/localhost./IN: file not found

zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading master file named.local: file not found

_default/0.0.127.in-addr.arpa./IN: file not found

zone 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0. 0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN: loading master file named.ip6.local: file not found

_default/0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0. 0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa./IN: file not found

zone 255.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading master file named.broadcast: file not found

_default/255.in-addr.arpa./IN: file not found

zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading master file named.zero: file not found

_default/0.in-addr.arpa./IN: file not found

[60G[[0;31mFAILED[0;39m]



Just wondering if anybody can help me Please.

Cheers
Jeff

[Lazydog]

By default RH5 uses a chroot env for bind. This is located under /var/named/chroot.
What does your named.conf look like?

[JJAussie]

Hi Lazydog, that was the problem, I have made sure the config files are in the correct location and it is all okay now.

Thanks for your help
Cheers
Jeff