From: John R. Dennison Sent: November 25, 2009 15:26 > > You are going through entirely too many steps. > > 1) Edit zone file > > 2) rndc reload foo.com I will give that a try. > Also in the steps you have taken above you are stopping bind > via rndc stop and then trying to start it with the unknown > "start" command. Even if "start" was known it would not work, > rndc communicated directly with named, and since it was already > stopped in a previous step there is no way that your "start" > (or any other command, reload, flush, whatever) could work at > that point. That would explain a lot but it would have been more useful if the rndc command had returned an error saying something like "start command unknown" rather than accepting the command and indicating a communication problem. Thanks very much for your informative reply. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com