Tony Mountifield wrote: > 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 > Yes I want the caching-nameserver running and thought it would result from the install but that didn't happen? Despite that it seems to be working well! I was able to install xfce via yum but apparently gkrellm will have to be done without yum? I also like the dejavu fonts ... So I have some configuration to attend to but so far I am quite happy with the result. Thanks. Bob