(Very) Newbie troubles using "named"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37937AB3.77F7471D at guthrie.sol.co.uk>,
Colin Guthrie  <colin at guthrie.sol.co.uk> wrote:
>Jul 19 19:59:59 server named[256]: starting.  named 8.2.1 Mon Jul 19
>15:29:02 GMT 1999 ^Iroot at server:/home/colin/DNS/bind-8/src/bin/named
>Jul 19 19:59:59 server named[256]: /etc/named.conf:1: syntax error near
>'^M'

This makes me think that you edited the file on a PC and transferred it to
the Linux box in binary mode, so the newlines didn't get translated.  Unix
text files shouldn't have Ctl-M characters in them.

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