it gives me this Feb 20 22:19:14 sanshiro named[3877]: starting BIND 9.3.3rc2 Feb 20 22:19:14 sanshiro named[3877]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: no IPv6 interfaces found Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.0.10#53 Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 10.0.0.1#53 Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: could not configure root hints from 'root.cache': file not found Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: loading configuration: file not found Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: exiting (due to fatal error) ________________________________________________________________ italianiceboy, go the the directory that root.cache should be in im guessing that the commands should be like this cd /var/named/chroot/var/named dig @a.root-servers.net . ns > root.cache chown named:named root.cache service named restart and all should be well - rh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080220/a1b376bc/attachment-0004.html>