Wits end

[Mark Elkins]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:03 -0400, Bob Hoffman wrote:
> Okay, so I tried offering up to 50 dollars an hour to help me set up a
> simple nameserver, but no takers.
> 
> I really need some help. My first time doing it.

In all the replies so far - no one suggested running Bind in Debug
mode.. (ie - with '-g' )

Start up bind (if its not already running).

Find out its command line...

(ps ax | grep named)
I get "/usr/sbin/named -u named -n 1"

Kill the process and restart with the original command but add the "-g"
flag .. ie   /usr/sbin/named -u named -n 1 -g (in my case)

Now all logging (and errors) come to the screen. Queries should also
show.

Not fixing the problem - but may indicate the problem - wrong filename -
etc.
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