On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 08:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > /var/named isn't normally writable by the named process. > > Try configuring your DNS server to maintain the DDNS zone file in > the /var/named/slaves directory instead, which is writable by named. Is this something that's changed since FC4? If your DHCP server is updating MASTER DNS records, then there's no reason that it should have to be working in the SLAVE subdirectory. And no DHCP server ought to be mucking about with slave records. It (updating master records) certainly works in FC4, though I've set SELinux options to allow named to overwrite master zone files. /var/named/ drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Mar 31 10:31 named /var/named/chroot/ drwxr-x--- 6 root named 4096 Mar 31 10:31 chroot /var/named/chroot/var/ drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Mar 14 2003 var /var/named/chroot/var/named/ drwxr-x--- 4 root named 4096 Aug 26 2004 named Record files in the above directory are owned named:named. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.