The ownership of /var/named and /var/named/* should be named.named when using bind-8.2.2_P5. The current ownership of root.root prevents named from creating debugging and loging files, and also prevents dynamic updates from functioning properly, since it is started as "named -u named" In addition, /var/named/named.local needs a new line to be inserted as line one: $TTL 86400 This will fix the following warning message from named: Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file named.local): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead