On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 20:00, Richard E. Robbins wrote: > I installed Fedora recently and wanted to configure BIND to add a forward > master zone for a private network. > > I used to run a DNS server on this particular network from a Redhat 7.2 > system without difficulty. > > After I installed Fedora I just started mucking with /etc/named.conf and > various zone files in /var/named. > > Along the way, I decided to play around with redhat-config-bind. > > >From reading the RH9 documentation for RH9 I think that I've probably made a > mess of things by revising these files and also playing with > redhat-config-bind. I'd like to get my system back to a clean starting > point and do all of my configuration with redhat-config-bind. Somewhere > between the new chroot stuff and the move to the current version of Bind > it's clear that I've become seriously confused. > > What's the easiest way for me to get to a clean starting point short of > reinstalling Fedora from scratch? > well I would start with deleting/renaming named.conf and the zonefiles and see if the config bind thing will recreate them. If no joy, try rpm -e bind and rpm -ivh /path/to/bind.rpm I suppose you could try rpm -Uvh --force /path/to/bind.rpm to do it in one shot if you get a dependency conflict. Bret
