Old zones work, new ones don't

[Kevin Darcy]

There should have been some error messages in the logs when named tried
to load those zones.

Also, are you familiar with the "named-checkzone" and
"named-checkconf" utilities included with BIND 9?


- Kevin

Cody wrote:

> First of all, I've searched all over the Internet for an answer to
> this question, and still can't find one, so that's why I'm posting
> this message.  I'm running a DNS server on a Linux box.  I'm the
> server for 12 domains, but that number used to be 6.  When I was the
> server for the 6 domains, things ran fine.  I added 6 new zone files
> to /var/named and also added the entries in the named.conf file.
> Those entries were exactly like the prior ones, and the zone files
> were identical, except for the fact that certain domains are pointing
> to different IPs.  The problem is, when I restart BIND, it doesn't
> notify for the 6 new domains, and when I dig those domains from the
> localhost DNS server, I get a SERVFAIL error.  Permissions are
> correct, and I've tried everthing I can think of to fix this, all to
> no avail.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Cody