question

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Hello
> 
> i am triying to run bind on debian and i get the following output when
> running named -g
> starting BIND 9.1.3 -g
> 
> Jul 30 11:03:57.897 using 1 CPU
> Jul 30 11:03:57.922 loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'

> Jul 30 11:03:57.926 zone configuration for '.' failed: file not found

	Well it looks obvious to me.  Named was trying to load the data
	for "." (root zone) and it couldn't read the file specified in
	named.conf.

	Do you have the right file name?
	Does the file exist?
	Do you have a directory clause in named.conf? 
	Is the directory mentioned the correct one?

	Mark


> Jul 30 11:03:57.926 loading configuration: failure
> Jul 30 11:03:57.926 exiting (due to fatal error
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Hernan Salvarezza
> 
> 
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