DNS tutor needed

[scratch]

Ok.....stupid question no 10....where is my log file?
And, I have to admit I used "service configuration" in KDE GUI to restart
named, as I'm not sure of the command. (I am using a secure shell to access
my server from a windows box more and more, but still a lot to learn, and
some things I still do at the server GUI)

Thanks from possibly the most ignorant wannabe system administrator on the
planet  :)

PS......does this help?

#/usr/sbin/named-checkzone teawamutu.net
dns_zone_load: zone teawamutu.net/IN: loading master file teawamutu.net:
file not found




"Barry Margolin" <barmar at genuity.net> wrote in message
news:a97fpt$l08 at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> In article <a97f67$kuv at pub3.rc.vix.com>, scratch <wmedia at xtra.co.nz>
wrote:
> >   UW PICO(tm) 4.0           File: /var/named/teawamutu.net.db
> >
> >$TTL    259200
> >@               IN      SOA     pc9.scratch.net.nz.
wmedia.xtra.co.nz. (
> >                                20020103015     ; serial
> >                                3600            ; refresh       - 1 hour
> >                                3600            ; retry         - 1 hour
> >                                604800          ; expire        - 7 days
> >                                7200 )          ; default_ttl   - 2 hours
> >
> >                IN      NS      pc9.scratch.net.nz.
> >                IN      NS      ns2.nameserver.net.nz.
> >
> >www             IN      A       210.86.2.21
> >@               IN      A       210.86.2.21
> >@               IN      MX      5       pc9.scratch.net.nz.
> >
> >
> >
> >Any idea why I don't answer authorititavely?
>
> It looks OK to me.  What error messages did you see in your log file?
>
> >PS rndc reload? Tell me more.....
>
> That's the command you use after you've made changes to any of the
> configuration files, to make named reread them.  What more is there to
> tell?
>
> If you didn't know about this, maybe the problem is that you didn't reload
> named after you added the zone statements to the named.conf file.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Woburn, MA
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