Thanks for all your responses, still no joy, the following are from "tail -f /var/log/messages" command:
Starting BIND 9.2.2-P3 -u named -t /var/named/chroot Using 1 CPU Loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Named startup succeeded No IPv6 interfaces found Listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 172.16.1.21#53 Command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 Zone aha/IN: loading master file aha.zone: file not found Running
Named just wouldn't find the aha.zone file. This file is definitely in /var/named/chroot/var/named directory (double and triple checked). The permissions are rw-r--r-- with named as the owner and group.
Also checked the /etc/sysconfig/named to make sure ROOTDIR=/var/named/chroot.
This thing is becoming ultra frustrating... should have stuck with RH9.
Just noticed this thread. Is it at all possible to strace and what what named does on startup ? You may see some clue there.
Cheers, Michael
