[CentOS] Re: centos 4.4 dns problem -

In article <46010BD3.1070307 at wildblue.net>,
Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> Upon installing Centos 4.4 a second time it worked "out of the box" as 
> expected.  Sorry that I caused a stir over a non-problem.  I still have 
> no idea what I did that may have caused dns to fail, I think I made all 
> the same choices and entries the second time around?  However doing this 
> in the wee hours I had no interruptions or distractions ...
> 
> Should anyone be interested the dns servers are:
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 12.189.32.61
> nameserver 208.67.222.222
> nameserver 208.67.220.220

These are all external to your box.

> but there may be a problem here:
> service named status
> rndc: connect failed: connection refused

So this isn't a problem - you don't need named running on the box unless
you want to support having "nameserver 127.0.0.1" in your resolv.conf

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Tony
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