Comments on: Check BIND – DNS Server configuration file for errors with named-checkconf tools

By: Roshan

Roshan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:28:00 +0000

copy the hints finle to /etc/ folder……and then restart the service.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:43:15 +0000

hi Vivek,
i have a problem whenever i do a nslookup for a site named manalihospital it does not return an answer but after i restart the named process it works fine for some time and again the same problem persists, what can be the problem.
thank you in advance

Andy

By: Mohamed Dh.

Mohamed Dh. — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:46:04 +0000

Dear Sir,

I have problem starting named service, I get Starting Named: [FAILED]. Then I started to check bind configuratio using named-checkconf command, but there is no output. Please hel me.
Thanks
Mohamed

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:51:22 +0000

It is fedora 6 with all the lastest updates. Yes, it should be in chroot by default. It all started with this article:

I was hoping to get it set up and running. Here is my version:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q bind-chroot
bind-chroot-9.3.4-7.P1.fc6
[root@localhost ~]#

When I tried to backup things by doing:

[root@bigboy tmp]# cp -f /etc/named.conf /var/named/chroot/etc/
[root@bigboy tmp]# cp -f /etc/rndc.* /var/named/chroot/etc/

It could not find the file locations and so I located them and typed in different ones. I’m not sure if that would have thrown it off?

Is there someway just to remove it all and start over again? I tried removing and installing the graphical way through KDE but everything remains the same when I try to start named again.

Thanks,

By: vivek

vivek — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:25:04 +0000

Do you run named in chroot jail? Can you tell me your Linux distro name?

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:23:00 +0000

DNS N00B

I cannot get my bind service to start. When I type:
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/named start
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:58: open: /etc/named.root.hints: file not found
[FAILED]

What do I need to do to make the file appear in the correct directory. If I do:

[root@localhost ~]# locate named.root.hints
/usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.4/sample/etc/named.root.hints

The file seems to be in the directory above.

By: Balwinder S Dheeman

Balwinder S Dheeman — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:07:33 +0000

There also exists a dlint; a DNS Lint and even a dnstracer too ;)

By: Fabio Viero

Fabio Viero — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:53:04 +0000

also there´s named-checkzone to check zone files for typos, syntax errors and the like. Command syntax is as follows:

named-checkzone

Example for a zone domain.com with a zone file named domain.com.zone

named-checkzone domain.com domain.com.zone