Hi, Thanks. > > > Is something wrong witn below line. > > IN NS gateway.example77.com > > You don't want the 'IN' - the zone files should start something like > this: > > $TTL 3D > @ IN SOA magpie.stevesearle.com. steve.stevesearle.com. ( > 200604011 ; Serial > 8H ; Refresh > 2H ; Retry > 4W ; Expire > 1D) ; Minimum TTL > NS magpie.stevesearle.com. > 2 PTR magpie.stevesearle.com. I removed 'IN'. Pls see below. [root at gateway master]# cat example77.com.zone $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA gateway.example77.com. root.example77.com. ( 2006101604 ; Serial 1800 ; Refresh 300 ; Retry 360000 ; Expire 86400 ) ; Minimum NS gateway.example77.com. MX 10 gateway.example77.com. MX 20 mail.example77.com. A 192.168.0.3 gateway A 192.168.0.3 mail A 192.168.0.2 But, I still get the same error. pls see below. [root at gateway master]# tail -f /var/log/messages Jul 5 15:50:29 gateway named[3048]: exiting Jul 5 15:50:32 gateway named[3548]: starting BIND 9.3.3rc2 -u named -t /var/named/chroot Jul 5 15:50:32 gateway named[3548]: found 2 CPUs, using 2 worker threads Jul 5 15:50:32 gateway named[3548]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Jul 5 15:50:32 gateway named[3548]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Jul 5 15:50:32 gateway named[3548]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 203.143.26.131#53 Jul 5 15:50:32 gateway named[3548]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 Jul 5 15:50:32 gateway named[3548]: master/example77.com.zone:11: example77.com\032: bad owner name (check-names) Jul 5 15:50:32 gateway named[3548]: zone example77.com\032/IN: loading master file master/example77.com.zone: bad owner name (check-names) Jul 5 15:50:32 gateway named[3548]: running Do I need a file for reverce mapping. I still have not included such a file. I think it is noe essential. Am I right? Pls help me. See http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/centos5.0.svr.html#bind for more > details. > > Steve > > -- > > Play Champions - my free football predictions game at: > http://www.stevesearle.com/champs/about.html > > 11:01:28 up 9 days, 14:41, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.12, 0.10 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070705/22699716/attachment-0005.html>