On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > I updated my secondary DNS server from 5.3 to 5.4 today. After the > update, named would not start. A bit of investigation found that all of > the files in /var/named/chroot/var/named/data had been turned into links > to themselves! > > Fortunately, since this is a secondary DNS, all I had to do was delete > the files, replace the root hints file and let everything else copy back > over from the master. If this had been the master, I would have had to > restore from backups. > > Has anyone else seen this problem? > > -- > Bowie Do you have the caching-nameserver package installed? I've heard this can cause problems with files getting overwritten.