On 11/15/05, Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at earthlink.net> wrote: > Michael Rock <mikerocks65 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > So looked like another smooth ride, well until today I > > noticed my domains dropped off the net. Too bad I did > > not check the bind gui or look at /etc/named.conf > > after the yum update since it was replaced with a > > generic version from 3.6. > > Luckily I copied /etc/named.conf-rpmsave to named.conf > > and I am back in business, well at least in 24 to 72 > > hours for the rest of the world :( > > Has nothing to do with YUM. > It has to do with RPM. Close. It has to do with RH policy. > Now I agree you should _never_ see this out of a RHEL/CentOS > update. That's the whole purpose of backporting changes in > RHEL/CentOS updates -- to _avoid_ this from every occurring. RHEL tries. the named.conf file says to not edit it, and to use named.custom. Some people don't follow the directions. see bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145094 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145244 > > But apparently it did. And it will continue to for as long as people do what redhat perceives as the "wrong" thing. Yes this post is mostly a dupe of what I just posted under the original thread. People keep changing subjects and choking gmail. -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center