And the problem is even worse as I discovered on a machine that is supposed to be a DNS server for a domain I manage: the NetworkManager update pulled in caching-nameserver, and this overwrote /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf with one that only does caching and localhost stuff. Packaging bug I think; such a server configuration file should not get overwritten, caching-nameserver should have installed its own file as named.conf.rpmnew or so. Or maybe even a better suggestion: if NetworkManager needs to have a local nameserver, why not have it require either caching-nameserver or bind if bind is already installed? Usually a DNS server set up to serve some domein is also capable of acting as a chaching nameserver at the same time. David Jansen