From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 Description of problem: drwxr-x--- 2 root named /var/named when configured as a secondary, named downloads the DNS Zones to /var/named the following error appears: dumping master file" tmp-XXXXYfgsdf: open: permission denied failed while receiving responces: permission denied as the server starts as "named" user and can not write into /var/named FIX: change drwxr-x--- 2 named named /var/named Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bind-9.2.2.21 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install bind-9.2.2.21 2. define a secondary DNS Zone 3. start the server and see the log file Additional info:
For security reasons the dir has been changed to root:named. If you want to down load zone files, you should create a subdirectory, slaves. Then chown named:named slaves. Now set up you named.conf gile to put the secondary files in there.