Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/19/2010 5:26 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > >> 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. >> > > If you install the caching-nameserver package it assumes you don't have > any other configuration (that's that point of it being a > caching-nameserver). > Nope, no caching-nameserver here. All I have is: bind-libs-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.1 bind-utils-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.1 bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.1 bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.1 -- Bowie