From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: It plain doesn't work. redhat-config-bind comes preconfigured with localhost forward and reverse zones. However, when I try to add my zone (forward and reverse), I get SERVFAIL whenever I try to look things up using host. Yes, I restarted named after saving the zone information. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bind-9.2.2.P3-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install bind, bind-chroot, caching-nameserver, redhat-config-bind 2. Run redhat-config-bind and set up, say, a Forward Master Zone 3. Save and exit 4. Restart named 5. host <some_host_you_created_in_step_2> localhost 6. Watch it break. Actual Results: Failed lookup despite correct use of tools. Expected Results: Successful lookup. Additional info: None.
Try to upgrade to system-config-bind (rename) from RawHide. Alot of problems have been fixed. Dan