I received these errors when running the command "sudo named-checkconf"
/etc/bind/named.conf.local:4: unknown option 'zone'
/etc/bind/named.conf.local:10: unknown option 'zone'
/etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones:2: unknown option 'zone'
/etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones:10: unknown option 'zone'
/etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones:15: unknown option 'zone'
/etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones:20: unknown option 'zone'
/etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones:25: unknown option 'zone'
/etc/bind/named.conf:12: '}' expected near end of file

CODE:

//Consider adding the 1918 zones here, if they are not used in your organization
//include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918";
zone "ex.com" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/zones/db.ex";
allow-transfer { 192.168.1.124;};
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/zones/db.192.168.1";
allow-transfer { 192.168.1.124;};
};

It is treating your zone entries as "options" which they aren't.

Is what you displayed the start of the file or just the start of the zones? Presumably it isn't the complete file as you got errors on later lines for "zone" that you didn't include.

What, if anything, is ABOVE your zones in the "options" section? Did you properly close the options section?

Thank you MensaWater
I found the error on the /etc/bind/named.conf.options which doesnt have a closing bracket. I thought the error on this file because the file name was shown in the errors.

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