Description of problem: named complains in an error in my named.ca file. [root@tmphost etc]# service named start Starting named: Error in named configuration: /etc/named.ca:1: '}' expected near ';' [FAILED] Here's the first 5 lines: [root@tmphost etc]# head -n 5 named.ca ; This file holds the information on root name servers needed to ; initialize cache of Internet domain name servers ; (e.g. reference this file in the "cache . <file>" ; configuration file of BIND domain name servers). ; While testing this, I was using the following named.conf: view "external" { include "/etc/named.ca"; }; Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@tmphost ~]# named -v BIND 9.5.0a7 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to ISC.org, download root hints and save as named.ca 2. Install bind and bind-chroot, use named.conf from above 3. Start named Actual results: Error message listed above Expected results: Service should start? Additional info:
Nevermind, apparently you can't include the root hints directly. You have to include a root hints file with a zone "." of type hint. You can close this. Recommend that you include a working named.root.hints which is reference in the default installation to avoid the confusion in the future.
(In reply to comment #1) > Recommend that you include a working named.root.hints which is reference in the > default installation to avoid the confusion in the future. F8 package already includes default configuration. BIND is shipped with /etc/named.conf and /etc/named.rfc1912.zones . With this configuration BIND will be used as caching nameserver