[CentOS] New CentOS DNS Server woes

Sun Aug 5 20:22:28 UTC 2007
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 18:07 -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've put my new DNS server in place, told the primary that this IP would
> be pulling zones and restarted BIND on the primary.
> 
> I configured my named.conf file to pull zones from the primary, started
> BIND on the new box.   Here's where I get confused
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> [root at sunspot etc]# /etc/init.d/named status
> number of zones: 169
> debug level: 0
> xfers running: 0
> xfers deferred: 0
> soa queries in progress: 0
> query logging is OFF
> recursive clients: 0/1000
> tcp clients: 0/100
> server is up and running
> +++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> So the new BIND sees the conf file and recognizes that there are 169
> zones (test group) to pull.
> 
> nothing comes over.  I tailed the /var/log/messages and I see about 169
> <g> of these:
> 
> Aug  5 14:10:08 sunspot named[5263]: dumping master file:
> /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/tmp-sTsIWElBLR: open: file not found
>  
> 
> and these
> 
> Aug  5 14:10:08 sunspot named[5263]: transfer of 'jemsites.com/IN' from
> 64.135.16.10#53: failed while receiving responses: file not found
> 
> 
> I think this must be a permissions issue. (btw, SELinux is in Permissive
> mode at the moment).
> 
> TIA for any comments or suggestions.
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chgrp -R named /var/named/chroot/var/named
chmod -R g+w /var/named/chroot/var/named

Craig