Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <460139E4.4050505 at gmail.com>, > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>>>> but there may be a problem here: >>>>> service named status >>>>> rndc: connect failed: connection refused >>>>> >> By the way, a 'yum update' might fix the rndc problem. I thought there >> was some issue with the key generation that only affects communication >> between named and its control program. Normal operation should work anyway. >> > > "connection refused" most likely means named is not running, and that it > hasn't actually got as far as trying to use the key. > > Cheers > Tony > 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? Bob