Tru Huynh wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:42:12AM -0700, Chris Miller wrote: >> I just had a customer's bind server lose all of it's local DNS records. >> Yum updated the bind packages this morning at ~6am, and replaced the >> original /etc/named.conf file, saving the old as named.conf.rpmsave. This >> seems like the opposite of what it should have done (i.e. save the new >> file as named.conf.rpmnew). > If you have the caching-nameserver package, it's the expected behaviour: > > /etc/named.conf is "owned" and labelled as "config file" for caching-nameserver. > > The regular bind/bind-chroot don't provide named.conf. > You should not install the caching-nameserver package if you are > indeed providing DNS services with bind... Thanks! I wasn't aware of this package, and it was indeed at fault. Seems like the package should be named bind-caching-nameserver... Chris