[CentOS] Re: centos 4.4 dns problem -

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <4601477F.6040008 at wildblue.net>,
Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> Yes that was the problem, I can start named and service named status
> shows it running, that's  ok but when I make the 127.0.0.1 entry in
> /etc/resolv.conf I get -
> 
> dig centos.org
> dig: couldn't get address for '127.0.0.1': not found
> 
> This is stuff that works for me in FC6 so apparently there are
> other things to deal with in Centos?

That suggests that you haven't actually got the caching-nameserver RPM
installed, so you are lacking the zone for it to do a reverse lookup
on 127.0.0.1.

Could you post the output from the following commands?

cat /etc/resolv.conf
rpm -q caching-nameserver
cat /etc/named.conf
ls -l /var/named

Or feel free to email me off-list.

Cheers
Tony
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