Again, thanks for all the help so far.
The thing that I keep coming to is that it appears named is not running on
this machine.
"service named xxx", where xxx is anything gives me no output.
/etc/init.d/named xxx gives no output.
GoFast is my provider, and /etc/resolv.conf contains just the one
nameserver for them: 209.46.63.1. Since I'm not running named (or am I?) I
can't imagine the content of that file matters.
ps gives no named, pidof named returns nothing.
Here's the beginning of /etc/init.d/named, where it apparently just quits:
#!/bin/bash
#
# named This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# named (BIND DNS server).
#
# chkconfig: - 55 45
# description: named (BIND) is a Domain Name Server (DNS) \
# that is used to resolve host names to IP addresses.
# probe: true
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
RETVAL=0
prog="named"
# Check that networking is up.
[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0
[ -r /etc/sysconfig/named ] && . /etc/sysconfig/named
[ -x /usr/sbin/named ] || exit 0
[ -r ${ROOTDIR}/etc/named.conf ] || exit 0
start() {
<<< end of excerpt
It should be standard Red Hat issue.
/etc/sysconfig/named exists and has only comments.
/usr/sbin/named exists and is executable.
Aha. /etc/named.conf did not exist. I made a blank file, and service named
now prints "rndc: connect failed: connection refused".
I'd appreciate a pointer to a quick and dirty HOWTO on DNS. I've looked at
one pretty bad page, so pointers to a good one would be nice.
Once I get named running, I can add GoFasts second DNS machine to the
resolv.conf file, and see how that goes.
Chris Schumann
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