Empty db in bind 9.1

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9rmlvi$rkb at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Diego Balgera <diego.balgera at nokia.com> wrote:
>Hi smart guys,
>I have a problem in configuring a bind 9.1 over a linux host.
>I configured a named.conf to have a certain zone authoritative.
>
>---------------------------------
>zone "bindforever.com" IN {
>        type master;
>        file "named.testbed";
>        allow-update { none; };
>};
>---------------------------------
>
>Then I configured rndc.conf and the controls and key sections in named.conf
>to have the dns control with rndc tool (that's a new for me, that's my 1st
>experience with bind 9 after having worked with bind 8.x ... :-)  ).
>
>The problem occurs in querying the name server, it doesn't answer to any
>question.
>So I dumped the database (rndc dumdb). With surprise, I found the
>named_dump.db EMPTY (as follows)!
>
>---------------------------------
>[root at nut named]# cat named_dump.db
>;
>; Cache dump of view '_default'
>;
>$DATE 20011030094834
>---------------------------------
>
>Note that I haven't configured any view at all ...

_default is the default view when no views are configured.

>I'm sure I'm missing something.

Have you checked your log to see if it's getting errors when it tries to
load the named.testbed file?

Do you have a root server hints zone configured?

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