mjhjmtu

I am very new to DNS configurations. I am trying to configure DNS on RHEL 5 for study purposes.

I have set up forward zones, reverse zones, and named.conf files in order to get the DNS working, but when I run service named start, I get the following error:

OS: RHEL 5

IPs I am using 172.168.190.1 ... 172.168.190.50

My /etc/named.conf file is as follows:

options 
 directory "/var/named";
 dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
 statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
 listen-on port 53 any; ;
;

zone "oracleexpert.com" IN 
 type master;
 file "oracleexpert.com.fwd.zone";
 allow-update none; ;
;

zone "localhost" IN 
 type master;
 file "localhost.fwd.zone";
 allow-update none; ;
;

zone "190.168.172.in-addr.arpa." IN 
 type master;
 file "172.168.190.rev.zone";
 allow-update none; ;
;

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa." IN 
 type master;
 file "localhost.rev.zone";
 allow-update none; ;
;

zone "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa." IN 
 type master;
 file "named.ip6.local";
 allow-update none; ;
;

zone "255.in-addr.arpa." IN 
 type master;
 file "named.broadcast";
 allow-update none; ;
;

zone "0.in-addr.arpa." IN 
 type master;
 file "named.zero";
 allow-update none; ;
;

include "/etc/rndc.key";

 50,19 Bot

Please help. Thanking you.

Here is the output of sed -n l /etc/named.conf:

options $
tdirectory "/var/named";$
tlisten-on port 53 any; ;$
;$
$
zone "oracleexpert.com" IN $
ttype master;$
tfile "oracleexpert.com.fwd.zone";$
tallow-update none; ;$
;$
$
zone "localhost" IN $
ttype master;$
tfile "localhost.fwd.zone";$
tallow-update none; ;$
;$
$
zone "190.168.172.in-addr.arpa" IN $
ttype master;$
tfile "172.168.190.rev.zone";$
tallow-update none; ;$
;$
$
zone "0.0.127.in-addr-arpa" IN $
ttype master;$
tfile "localhost.rev.zone";$
tallow-update none; ;$
;$
$
zone "255.in-addr.arpa" IN $
ttype master;$
tfile "named.broadcast";$
tallow-update none; ;$
;$
$
zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN $
ttype master;$
tfile "named.zero";$
tallow-update none; ;$
;$
$
include "/etc/rndc.key";$
[root@alpha ~]# 

Take out the dots. Instead of:

zone "190.168.172.in-addr.arpa." IN 
 type master;
 file "172.168.190.rev.zone";
 allow-update none; ;
;

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa." IN 
 type master;
 file "localhost.rev.zone";
 allow-update none; ;
;

It should be:

zone "190.168.172.in-addr.arpa" IN 
 type master;
 file "172.168.190.rev.zone";
 allow-update none; ;
;

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN 
 type master;
 file "localhost.rev.zone";
 allow-update none; ;
;

Well, thank you very much for all your support. I got it rectified. It was a silly mistake I was doing. I had /etc/named.conf and /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf files and both were slightly different from one another. I just had to match them both in order to get it working.