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[Holger Honert]

Hi,

well the log-entry says it:

the config-file referred is not found in the given directory.

you are running named in chroot()-jail, so the conf-file should be
located in /var/named/etc/namedb/.

check out if named.conf is in the right place!

regards

holger

> i am changing over my DNS from red hat linux plat form to free BSD,i 
> have downloaded Bind 9 and am using Free bsd 5.3.how ever i cannot start 
> my named file,the following are the log messages:please advice.
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> May 29 17:34:14 dochula su: rinzin to root on /dev/ttyp0
> May 29 17:36:20 dochula named[23619]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -t 
> /var/named
> May 29 17:36:20 dochula named[23619]: none:0: open: 
> /etc/namedb/named.conf: file not found
> May 29 17:36:20 dochula named[23619]: loading configuration: file not found
> May 29 17:36:20 dochula named[23619]: exiting (due to fatal error)
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