I am sure I never specifically installed the caching name server but a rpm -q caching-nameserver yields version 7.3-3_EL3. I usually just select the DNS option during the GUI install and look to make sure bind is listed (perhaps the caching name server is automatically checked). There after I ended up editing the named.conf or used webmin that in turn edited the named.conf. So ultimately I some how ended up with a caching name server I do not need. So if I got this right 1. remove rpm -e caching-nameserver 2. copy my zones from named.conf-rpmsave to named.custom 3. do not use webmin since it edits named.conf or reconfigure it to edit named.custom Should anything be specifically removed from named.conf or named.custom having to do with the caching name server? Did I miss anything here? Thanks guys. --- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > > A real name server doesn't also need > caching-nameserver installed ... it > will lookup zones it doesn't control. > > caching-nameserver is what you would install if you > didn't need to > control any domains and wanted a local DNS server. > > caching-nameserver is just bind and some config > files that don't have > any zones in the named.conf file > > If you install caching-nameserver you are saying > that you want a DNS > machine that doesn't control zones. > > If you remove the package caching-nameserver, it > will save your > named.custom and named.conf files as rpmsave files > ... just move them > back into place afterwards and leave > caching-nameserver removed. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com