Error in bind cofigring

ganesh24pal@gmail.com · 04-01-2011, 01:43 AM

Hi All,

I am using Cent OS 5.5 and i want configure DNS, but while configuring bind i am getting below error.

#/etc/init.d/named restart Stopping named: [ OK ]
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:57: open: /etc/named.root.hints: file not found
[FAILED]

EricTRA · 04-01-2011, 01:51 AM

Hi,

Follow the hint...

Quote:

file not found

Looks pretty clear, you have an error in your configuration file. Check for existence of named.root.hints, adapt where necessary and restart named.

Kind regards,

Eric

jamrock · 04-02-2011, 06:05 AM

BIND needs a number of files in order to work. One of the files is the root hints file. This file contains a list of the root DNS servers and their addresses.

Your /etc/named.conf file is looking for this file in /etc/named.root.hints but it is not there. Search for a file by that name on your server and copy it to that location.

You can use the following command to search:

find / -name named.root.hints