[NCLUG] Fwd: RedHat 7.1 (BIND) Gotchas/Warning (fwd)

[James DeWitt]

A friend sent this to me...

Somebody else wrote:

>I FINALLY figured out why BIND/named wasn't working after upgrading to
>RedHat 7.1 ---  RedHat 7.1 ships with BIND 9.1, which will NOT allow
>named to start if there are ANY problems with /etc/named.conf.  For some
>reason there was a duplicate "directory=" statement at the beginning of
>the file which caused my troubles.
>
>Another interesting piece of information is that named will not record
>anything to /var/log/named/??? unless it starts properly.  Since 9.1
>wouldn't start, there were no log messages in the place I looked first.
>Eventually I checked out /var/log/messages and found the info ("named
>started... named stopped - bad config file") to know what to hack on.
>
>Working with Linux is fun, but it is like growing up - you learn most of
>your stuff from experience, despite the best advice of your "parents" or
>in this case, O'Reily books.  :o)
>
>PS - Samba seems entirely unaffected by the upgrade.  Thank goodness!!!