Some help with BIND9 settings!

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Tasha Smith wrote:

> Hi...
> Ok this is what i got soo far: I looked in /var/log/messages and got this:
>
> Jan 31 02:00:36 bhr2113y53tl named[1003]: starting BIND 9.2.2rc1 -u named
> Jan 31 02:00:36 bhbr2113y53tl named[1003]: using 1 CPU
> Jan 31 02:00:36 bhbr2113y53tl named[1005]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
> Jan 31 02:00:36 bhbr2113y53tl named[1005]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> Jan 31 02:00:36 bhbr2113y53tl named[1005]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
> Jan 31 02:00:36 bhbr2113y53tl named[1005]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 192.168.0.1#53
> Jan 31 02:00:36 bhbr2113y53tl named[1005]: could not configure root hints from 'root.hints': file not found
> Jan 31 02:00:36 bhbr2113y53tl named[1005]: loading configuration: file not found
> Jan 31 02:00:36 bhbr2113y54tl named[1005]: exiting (due to fatal error)
>
>
>
> Soo im guessing my "root.hints" file is wrong. i tryed to loook on the tutorial for it but cant see where it is.

Please fix your word wrap.  Note that its also complaining that the
'configuration' is not found, and then its exiting due to a fatal error.
That would be why you can't telnet to port 53, because BIND isn't running.

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