I know the comments about top posting, but I think it is ok in this case.... I finally got DNS working. Dumb dumb dumb. I was so fed up, and since there was nothing on this system and I installed BIND by using the 'broken' redhat GUI instead of installing intially or using yum install, I did a total rebuild (and brought the system memory up to 256Mb by stealing from another system for now). Had a real rough time on that reinstall (another story and post). Well, I again copied my named.custom and *.zone files into /var/named/chroot/etc and it still did not work. So I again stared at the system logs. I finally noticed that named.custom was being processed, but none of the zone files were being found. I looked at my mode to named.conf and I had: include "'/etc/named.custom" But in named.custom I had: file "whatever.zone" Dah. changed that to be "/etc/whatever.zone" and things started working right! Now how in the bleep did I have this in my old attempt (but Centos 3.4) and it worked? On to getting mail working then telling all and sundry that my primary dns server is on a new address. Oh what fun that will be! At 12:19 PM 12/30/2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote: >On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:36 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I got that: > > cat resolv.conf > > ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script > > search htt-consult.com > > nameserver 65.84.78.211 > > nameserver 65.84.78.209 > > Oh, and originally I installed the system to use DHCP. Then I the > > gnome Network control apt to edit stuff to go to the static address. > >Is this your DNS server? > >Your DNS server should use itself, and then forward as appropriate in >its named.conf file. > >This is coming up so much that I think we need just a dedicated FAQ on >"proper DNS server/network configuration." > >-- >Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org >http://thebs413.blogspot.com >------------------------------------------ >Some things (or athletes) money can't buy. >For everything else there's "ManningCard." > > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos