RE: [cobalt-users] DNS problem - please help! {Scanned}

["Curtis Ross" <Curtis_Ross@xxxxxx>]

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>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of SW
>Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:30 AM
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>Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] DNS problem - please help! {Scanned}
>
>
>DNS is running on the box it just takes it a long time to 
>startup when the
>box is rebooted (the LCD sits for about 10 - 15 minutes on the 
>'Starting DNS
>Server'). Here is what I get when I do the following:
>
># /etc/rc.d/init.d/named status
>named 8.2.7-REL Sun Aug  3 23:05:18 PDT 2003
>admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/home/redhat/BUILD/bind-8.2.7/
>src/bin/named
>config (/etc/named.conf) last loaded at age: Tue Dec 30 14:39:23 2003
>number of zones allocated: 64
>debug level: 0
>xfers running: 0
>xfers deferred: 0
>soa queries in progress: 0
>query logging is OFF
>server is up and running
>------------
>What else can I take a look to see why it's not working? It 
>works for other
>domains but not all that are on this box.
>

I have the same problem once in awhile when I've made changes to DNS. What I've found is that the onwer and group on the zone files and the named.conf changes from "named" to "root". Changing it back always solves it.

Curtis Ross