Newbie Running Problem

[Simon Waters]

Richard Fila wrote:
> 
> ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): Connection refused
> ndc: error: cannot connect to command channel (/var/run/ndc)

It isn't running - check with "ps -ef | grep named"

> I've made named.conf with the following:
> options {
>         directory "/var/named/domains"
>         };
> 
> zone v3-computers.co.uk {
>   type master;
>   file v3-computers.co.uk;
>   };
> 
> Am I missing something ?  Why dosn't the server work?

The answer is probably in your syslog "/var/log/messages". I
always quote zone names and file names in named.conf, not sure
whether it is required.