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 -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org