[CentOS] Bind Problem

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 19:28 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> I have a DNS server which is not returning mx queries for some reason? The zone file is as follows:
> 
> $TTL 1H
> @       IN      SOA     example.com.    root.example.com. (
>                                                 1       ; serial#
>                                                 3H      ; refresh
>                                                 1H      ; retry
>                                                 1W      ; expire
>                                                 1H )    ; minimum
>                         NS      ns1.example.com.
>                         MX      10 mail
>                         TXT     "v=spf1 a mx include:isp.com -all"
> 
> example.com.            A       aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
> ns1                     A       aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
> mail                    A       aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
> 
> The server is setup as with a caching only configuration with recursion turned off.
> Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
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just guessing (because I am this dumb), you created as root and need to
change owner:group to named:named (the zone file). /var/log/messages
should tell you if that was the problem.

Craig