I have installated and configured Bind...But when i restart the named service ,I am getting the following error...

31 14:29:16 Server avahi-daemon[2440]: Server startup complete. Host name is Server.local. Local service cookie is 1560939195.
Mar 31 14:29:46 Server named: /etc/named.conf:3: change directory to '/var/lib/named' failed: file not found
Mar 31 14:29:46 Server named:
Mar 31 14:29:46 Server named: /etc/named.conf:3: parsing failed
Mar 31 14:42:34 Server named: /etc/named.conf:3: change directory to '/var/lib/named' failed: file not found
Mar 31 14:42:34 Server named:
Mar 31 14:42:34 Server named: /etc/named.conf:3: parsing failed


My named.conf configuration file


options {

directory "/var/lib/named";
dump-file "/var/log/named_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/log/named.stats";

# The forwarders record contains a list of servers to which queries
# should be forwarded. Up to three servers may be listed.

forwarders { 62.31.176.39 ; 193.38.113.3; };

# Enable the next entry to prefer usage of the name server declared in
# the forwarders section.

#forward first;

listen-on-v6 { any; };

# If notify is set to yes (default), notify messages are sent to other
# name servers when the zone data is changed. Instead of setting
# a global 'notify' statement in the 'options' section, a separate
# 'notify' can be added to each zone definition.

notify no;
};

# The following zone definitions don't need any modification. The first one
# is the definition of the root name servers. The second one defines
# localhost while the third defines the reverse lookup for localhost.

#zone "." in {
#type hint;
#file "root.hint";
};

#zone "localhost" in {
#type master;
#file "localhost.zone";
};

#zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
#type master;
#file "127.0.0.zone";
};

zone "test.com.in-addr.arpa" in {
type master;
file "frwd.zone";
allow update {none;};
};

zone "22.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in {
type master;
file "rev.zone";
allow update {none;};
};

And also i have configured forward snd reverse zone


Guys can you let me know where iam i gone wrong...

How did you installed bind? Does the directory /var/lib/named exist?
Note that if you're trying to run named chrooted to some directory (e.g. /var/named), then the actual directory to look for is /var/named/var/lib/named.

Actually see http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...5_ch-bind.html

Thanks For the reply...

I have pre-installated Bind at the time of installtion of operating System, and I am unable to find the named.conf files in /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf and also in var/lib

there is no named.conf files.

Hi,

The /etc/named.conf is not installed during bind installation. You can use a sample from /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.3/sample/etc/named.conf.
Have a look at this this post for more details

Regards