On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 19:28 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I have a DNS server which is not returning mx queries for some reason? The zone file is as follows: > > $TTL 1H > @ IN SOA example.com. root.example.com. ( > 1 ; serial# > 3H ; refresh > 1H ; retry > 1W ; expire > 1H ) ; minimum > NS ns1.example.com. > MX 10 mail > TXT "v=spf1 a mx include:isp.com -all" > > example.com. A aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd > ns1 A aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd > mail A aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd > > The server is setup as with a caching only configuration with recursion turned off. > Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? ---- just guessing (because I am this dumb), you created as root and need to change owner:group to named:named (the zone file). /var/log/messages should tell you if that was the problem. Craig