Getting an error on a very simple DNS configuration

[Mark Andrews]

You have a "file not found" error.  Specify the working directory
and where file names are relative to or use absolute file names.

options {
	directory "/var/named";
};

Mark


In message <CAOqzdMruo=N33U5r5jh-93CRpqfek83uUy5182QCm_XfOm=01A at mail.gmail.com>
, Samad Agha writes:
> 
> Hey Gurus,
> 
> I'm a newbie and am trying to set up the simplest DNS server, just a
> working version, nothing fancy yet. Below is the steps I've taken already:
> 1- Set up my /etc/named.conf as follows:
> [root at new-dns1 named]# cd /etc
> [root at new-dns1 etc]# cat named.conf
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "db.127.0.0";
> };
> [root at new-dns1 etc]#
> 
> 2- Set up my first zone in /var/named/db.127.0.0 as follows:
> 
> [root at new-dns1 named]# cat db.127.0.0
> $TTL 3D
> @               IN      SOA     new-dns1.ci.glendale.ca.us
> mchavoshi.glendaleca.gov. (
>                                 1       ; Serial
>                                 8H      ; Refresh
>                                 2H      ; Retry
>                                 4W      ; Expire
>                                 1D)     ; Minimum TTL
>                         NS      new-dns1.ci.glendale.ca.us.
> 1                       PTR     localhost.
> [root at new-dns1 named]#
> When I restarted named I got the following error:
> 
> [root at new-dns1 named]# service named restart
> Stopping named:                                            [  OK  ]
> Starting named:
> Error in named configuration:
> zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading from master file db.127.0.0 failed:
> file not found
> zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: not loaded due to errors.
> _default/0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: file not found
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> What's wrong? Please don't assume anything as I'm a newbie.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for your excellent work.
> 
> Hiroshi
> 
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