Bob Goodwin 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
>>
>>
> 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.
Serving DNS and where you resolve it as a client are completely
independent. It is entirely possible to run a nameserver but not use it
yourself on the same machine. The /etc/resolv.conf nameserver entries
determine where you resolve.
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.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com