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  •  Bellsan
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Bind
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Bind is not working! I have just installed CentOS 5 on my server. After attempting to start BIND it fails to start. Files are missing: named.conf as well as the localhost.zone and localdomain.zone does not exist.
Posted on: 2007/4/29 19:25
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  •  WhatsHisName
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Re: Bind
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A default named.conf caching nameserver configuration is no long supplied by default. RHEL5 is also set up that way and it is not a bug. For more details, there is a CentOS 4.92-beta bug report on this, which I cannot find at the moment.

There should be an example of a caching named.conf in the bind documentation. Also, check whether you have /etc/named.conf-isp-caching or something similar, which is how it is supplied in FC6. Sorry, I don't have access to a CentOS5 system right now and cannot look it up.

Redhat's response to questions about this configuration is that the user should configure bind through the GUI tool.
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Posted on: 2007/4/29 20:58
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  •  billwest
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Re: Bind
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Installing system-config-bind may help.

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Posted on: 2007/5/3 13:12
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  •  WhatsHisName
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Re: Bind
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Also:

# uname -r
2.6.18-8.1.3.el5

# yum info caching-nameserver

Summary: Default BIND configuration files for a caching nameserver

The  caching-nameserver package includes the configuration files which will make
the ISC BIND named DNS name server act as a simple caching nameserver.
A caching nameserver is a DNS Resolver, as defined in RFC 1035, section 7.

ISC BIND named(8) provides a very efficient, flexible and robust resolver as
well as a server of authoritative DNS data - many users use this package
along with BIND to implement their primary system DNS resolver service.

If you would like to set up a caching name server, you'll need to install
bind, bind-libs, and bind-utils along with this package.


# yum install caching-nameserver

#  cat /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf
//
// named.caching-nameserver.conf
//
// Provided by Red Hat caching-nameserver package to configure the
// ISC BIND named(8) DNS server as a caching only nameserver
// (as a localhost DNS resolver only).
//
// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
//
...


# yum list installed bind*

Installed Packages
bind.x86_64                              30:9.3.3-8.el5         installed
bind-chroot.x86_64                       30:9.3.3-8.el5         installed
bind-devel.x86_64                        30:9.3.3-8.el5         installed
bind-libs.i386                           30:9.3.3-8.el5         installed
bind-libs.x86_64                         30:9.3.3-8.el5         installed
bind-utils.x86_64                        30:9.3.3-8.el5         installed
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Posted on: 2007/5/3 14:58
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  •  sussane
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Re: Bind
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i also have been searching for /etc/named.conf file but couldn't find it... Is the GUI Setup only way available for centos5 ?
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Posted on: 2007/6/14 7:28
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  •  The_Vulpecula
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Re: Bind
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I personnaly used it and it is a nice tool. When you load it for the first time, it's going to create some basic files that you need. You can edit those files the old fashionned way after if you wish. But the tool allows you to create an entry for a host and immediatly create the reverse entry without doing it manually. I find it handy and now, my dns server is working like a charm.
Posted on: 2007/6/14 13:31
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  •  sussane
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Re: Bind
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do u mean to install "system-config-bind" for configuring bind on Centos5 ?
when i install from souce, i m still not getting named.conf file....
what's the way to install bind now ?
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Posted on: 2007/6/18 7:40
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  •  The_Vulpecula
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Re: Bind
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Yes, you install system-config-bind first.
Then, run it and save the configuratin it gives you by default. It is going to create the default files needed to configure bind ( named.conf, etc. ).
If you run SELinux, your files are going to be in the chroot jail under /var/named/chroot/*.
After that, you can edit the files manually.
Posted on: 2007/6/18 12:06
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