Date:  Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:57:54 +0100
From:  "Colin Jack" <colin (at mark) mainline.co.uk>
Subject:  [coba-e:07762] Re: DNS won't start
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <F07DD4D0940AFF41A207BE85479D2AFF1BFD27 (at mark) server.mainline.local>
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Idiot ... found it on line 147 of named.conf ... doh!

Colin 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Jack [mailto:colin (at mark) mainline.co.uk] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:47 PM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:07761] DNS won't start
> 
> Quick 'newbie' DNS question. Hope you guys don't mind.
> 
> I have recovered a server and used dnsImport to import the 
> DNS from backup. 
> 
> All seems to have imported okay except now the DNS server won't run:
> 
> [root@server2 ~]# service named start
> Starting named:
> Error in named configuration:
> /etc/named.conf:147: zone '0.0.127.in-addr.arpa': already 
> exists [FAILED]
> 
> Got this in the named directory:
> 
> [root (at mark) server2 named]# ls *.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa -al
> -rw-r--r--  2 named named 645 Oct 28 12:00 db.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
> -rw-r--r--  1 named named 570 Oct 27 18:09 pri.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
> [root@server2 named]#
> 
> ... not sure if that helps.
> 
> Sorry if this is a silly one, but DNS scares me and I dare 
> not muck it up. 
> 
> Colin
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