<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>Dear Group,<br><br>In the process of configuring bind, I created a new configuration file under /etc/named.conf<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">options {</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> directory "/var/named";</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> version "Nope.";</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">};</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">zone "internal.micro.com" in {</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> type master;</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> file "internal.micro.com";</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">};</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br>This is the definition I am using for the forward zone under /var/named/internal.micro.com<br style="font-weight: bold;"><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">$TTL 24h;</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">@ IN SOA plato.internal.micro.com lgrullon.internal.micro.com(</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 2011011401 ; Serial</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 108000 ; Refresh</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 3600 ; Retry</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 604800 ; Expire</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 86400 ; Minimum</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">)</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">internal.micro.com. IN NS plato.internal.micro.com.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">internal.micro.com. IN A 192.168.1.10</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">plato.internal.micro.com. IN A 192.168.1.10</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">internal.micro.com. IN MX 100 plato.internal.micro.com</span><br><br><br>I am getting the following error under /var/log/messages and named would not start after service named start. What am I missing?<br><br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3 -u named -D<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: found 24 CPUs, using 24 worker threads<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: using up to 4096 sockets<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: max open files (1024) is smaller than max sockets (4096)<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: using default UDP/IPv4 port range: [1024, 65535]<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: using default UDP/IPv6 port range: [1024, 65535]<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.1.10#53<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: command channel listening on ::1#953<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: the working directory is not writable<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: zone internal.micro.com/IN: loaded serial 2011011401<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: zone internal.micro.com/IN: sending notifies (serial 2011011401)<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: client 192.168.1.10#37212: received notify for zone 'internal.micro.com'<br>Jan 14 07:29:41 plato kernel: named[23081]: segfault at 00002aaaac0000d8 rip 00002aaaac0000d8 rsp 00000000507d8f58 error 15<br><br>Is there something wrong with the kernel and named? I am on 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5<br></body></html>