Hello, I decided to install a DNS server in my machine (name of the machine = station22) which run under FC2. I have used for this 'bind'. I have created a primary zone (name of domaine= alilou.fr). In order to test if my server work well, I have used the commande 'host', but I get this error: [root@a22sys3 root]# host station22 ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached And get these messages in the log file: Dec 7 00:13:53 a22sys3 named[6977]: couldn't add command channel ::1#953: not found Dec 7 00:13:53 a22sys3 named[6977]: zone alilou.fr/IN: loading master file alilou.fr.zone: file not found Dec 7 00:13:53 a22sys3 named[6977]: running Dec 7 01:13:54 a22sys3 named: starting of named succeeded This mean that it does'nt found the zone file alilou.fr.zone. This file exist in /var/named/chroot/var/named/ and in /var/named/ I give you the structure of some files if you need this: /etc/named.conf: ******************************** // generated by named-bootconf.pl options { directory "/var/named"; }; controls { inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; }; }; include "/etc/rndc.key"; zone "." IN { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "localhost" IN { type master; file "localhost.zone"; allow-update { none; }; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "named.local"; allow-update { none; }; }; // added by Alilou (me) <----- zone "alilou.fr" IN { type master; file "alilou.fr.zone"; }; zone "forward.alilou.fr" { type master; file "forward.alilou.fr.zone"; }; alilou.fr.zone: ****************** TTL 86400 @ IN SOA @ root.localhost ( 14 ; serial 28800 ; refresh 14400 ; retry 3600000 ; expire 86400 ; ttl ) IN NS localhost. ns IN NS 10.194.3.39. a22 IN NS 10.194.3.39. localhost IN NS 10.194.3.39 station22 IN A 10.194.3.39 station23 IN A 10.194.3.40 station12 IN A 10.194.3.35 station11 IN A 10.194.3.34 resolv.conf: ************ domain alilou.fr search alilou.fr nameserver 10.194.3.39 nameserver 127.0.0.1 **************** When I try to verify the structure of named.conf, the system do not give errors but it does'nt give me 'OK'. The answer is like this: [root@a22sys3 root]# /usr/sbin/named-checkconf [root@a22sys3 root]# And when I try to verify the structure of alilou.fr.zone, I get OK (no errors): [root@a22sys3 root]# /usr/sbin/named-checkzone alilou.fr /var/named/chroot/var/named/alilou.fr.zone zone alilou.fr/IN: loaded serial 14 OK PS1: bind do not modify named.conf. I have modified it manually (adding of the zone 'alilou.fr'). PS2:and create the files in /var/named/chroot/var/named/ and not in /var/named/ ????????????? Where is the problem please??? thank you very much for your answers... ????????????? __________ Aliloulinux