On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 12:00 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: "azeem ahmad" <azeem81@xxxxxxx> > Subject: DNS > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <BAY5-F12EDF9CDDFC3DDC0BD6AFBA380@xxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > > i m currently trying to configure named. but its not working. i have > configured named.conf anf created zoni.for and zoni.rev for forward and > reverse zones. i have changed resolve.conf to 127.0.0.1, but when i do > nslookup it says > server can't find name.zoni.com: SERVFAIL > what the problem can be > Regards > Azeem > The first thing to realize is that since FC3 "named" is "chroot'ed". That means if you do a ls -la named* you will see a soft link to the real directory that it is located. In order to get "named" working properly you will need to read about "chroot" and how to configure named. In addition here is a link that will give you step-by-step instructions http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=385863&postcount=12 Hope this helps... -- Ed Gurski <ed@xxxxxxxxxx>