What does /var/log/messages tell you? Most likely it's a named.conf issue. Thanks, Paul _____ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of ???? ??????? Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:22 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] BIND.named failed to start hi guys i have: CentOS_5.1 Linux 2.6.24 #2 SMP Fri Feb 15 20:03:34 AST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux with: bind-utils-9.3.3-10.el5 ypbind-1.19-8.el5 bind-9.3.3-10.el5 bind-chroot-9.3.3-10.el5 bind-libs-9.3.3-10.el5 when i try to start named i get this : Locating /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf//etc/named.conf failed: [FAILED] i allready tried to link and copy named.conf to /var/named/chroot/etc/ but i still get the same result does anybody know how to organize named files under my CentOS? thanks all in advance _____ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN <http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/> Messenger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080220/edf93447/attachment-0005.html>