On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Chris Dickson wrote:
> I've had another go at setting up this dns server and I think I've set up
> all the files right (see attached) but it shows the following errors in
> /var/logs/messages:
>
> Oct 7 17:10:09 hongkong named: named startup succeeded
> Oct 7 17:10:09 hongkong named[12421]: starting BIND 9.1.0 -u named
> Oct 7 17:10:09 hongkong named[12421]: using 1 CPU
> Oct 7 17:10:09 hongkong named[12425]: loading configuration from
> '/etc/named.conf'
> Oct 7 17:10:09 hongkong named[12425]: /etc/named.conf:18: parse error near
> 'hongkong'
> Oct 7 17:10:09 hongkong named[12425]: loading configuration: failure
> Oct 7 17:10:09 hongkong named[12425]: exiting (due to fatal error)
>
> My server computer is called hongkong. Any ideas as to what I have done
> wrong? I know it's probably something simple but I can't seem to see it.
Most likely you have forgotten a ; or } somewhere along the lines - look
at your /etc/named.conf file, specifically line 18 - if you cannot spot it
post the file and we shall see what we can do
>
> named.conf is in /etc/ and the rest are in /var/named/
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
Monkey
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