Out of the clear, I can no longer start named from /etc/rc.d/named start. The only error message that I get is in log/messages
Mar 7 17:13:59 unixmania named[99841]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind Mar 7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found Mar 7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: loading configuration: file not found Mar 7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: exiting (due to fatal error) Mar 7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind Mar 7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found Mar 7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: loading configuration: file not found Mar 7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: exiting (due to fatal error named.root is in /var/named/etc/namedb and contains the same as my bind 9.6 on current. adding an ls to named.root ls -l /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root /etc/namedb/named.root -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 3074 Jun 28 2010 /etc/namedb/named.root -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 3074 Jun 28 2010 /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root I can't find any major differences with this and 9.6 that works fine. when I try to start it notes that it isn't running and isn't abel to start. Thanks for any suggestions. I am running 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180: Wed Jan 26 04:33:51 CST 2011 Thanks, ed _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"