Newbie Question: Failed named.conf file edit?!

[Barry Margolin]

In article <eb7trj$1hr9$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Monty Loree" <montyloree at hotmail.com> wrote:

> < My apologies if this has been asked a million times.. I don't know
> the keywords to use to search for the question :)  >
> 
> I am setting up a new website on my server.  I edited my named.conf
> file ( and didn't stop the dns server when I saved the file. ) saved
> the file, rebooted my server and the named.conf file won't load
> properly.

What do the log messages say?  They should say what the problem is and 
what line of the file it doesn't like.

> I scoured the named.conf file to make sure there weren't any typos
> etc...

Did you try using the named-checkconf command?  That's what it's for, 
right?

> I have no idea where to start to see why the named.conf file doesn't
> load on boot.  I'm not sure that not stopping the server would have
> helped... I was wondering if that could be the problem?

It's perfectly fine to edit the file while the server is running.  It 
only accesses the file at startup and when you tell it to reload its 
configuration with rndc.

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