Some progress but no joy yet

[Ian Wark]

Thank you again to Danny and Vinny for your comments.
I tried setting a password for the "named" user and I immediately stopped 
getting fatal errors with named-checkconf. In fact, I got no message at all. 
It just returned with nothing at all. Although named-checkzone fails and 
other utilities, one good thing is that I became able to run named. So I 
took my minimalistic named.conf and martyskinder.dip.jp.zone and this is 
what I got. Is this running correctly? (Granted, I should get rid of the 
notify yes bit) I still can't access my home page from 
www.martyskinder.dip.jp. All of my config files are in etc directory.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\bin>named -g
20-10-2004 20:01:38.687 starting BIND 9.3.0 -g
20-10-2004 20:01:38.687 found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
20-10-2004 20:01:38.687 loading configuration from 
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf'
20-10-2004 20:01:38.734 listening on IPv4 interface Loopback Interface 1, 
127.0.0.1#53
20-10-2004 20:01:38.750 listening on IPv4 interface TCP/IP Interface 2, 
220.31.5.149#53
20-10-2004 20:01:38.796 command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
20-10-2004 20:01:38.890 ignoring config file logging statement due to -g 
option
20-10-2004 20:01:38.937 zone martyskinder.dip.jp/IN: has no NS records
20-10-2004 20:01:38.968 running

My configuration files are like this after chopping the commented bits:

[named.conf]

options {
    directory "/WINDOWS/system32/dns/etc";
};

zone "martyskinder.dip.jp" IN {
    type master;
    file "martyskinder.dip.jp.zone";
    allow-query { any; };
    notify yes;
};

[martyskinder.dip.jp.zone]

$TTL 86400
@         IN SOA   martyskinder.dip.jp. ianwark.hotmail.com. (
                        2003072400    ; serial
                        3H            ; refresh
                        15M           ; retry
                        1W            ; expiry
                        1D )          ; minimum

www       IN CNAME     martyskinder.dip.jp

[rndc.key]

key "rndc-key" {
 algorithm hmac-md5;
 secret "ZyhppE18SJcw0O0xHhbwHQ==";
};

[rndc.conf]

#Start of rndc.conf
key "rndc-key" {
 algorithm hmac-md5;
 secret "ZyhppE18SJcw0O0xHhbwHQ==";
};

options {
 default-key "rndc-key";
 default-server 127.0.0.1;
 default-port 953;
};
#End of rndc.conf

I will still do a reinstallation. Rndc is failing fatally. Should I delete 
my named user as well as deleting the dns directory?

Ian Wark.