[WBEL-users] DNS Slave issue

[John Hinton]

John Hinton wrote:

> zone "somedomain.com" {
>        type slave;
>        file "db.somedomain.com";
>        masters { 209.145.89.234; };
> };
>
> An entry like this has always worked for a secondary nameserver for me 
> on RH 7.2 with bind 9.2.1. Any ideas why this doesn't now work on 
> Whitebox? The db record doesn't make the trip.

To answer my own question, for those who are headed there... seems that 
WBEL creates the /var/named directory with user root. Since named runs 
as user named, it cannot by default write files to /var/named, 
therefore, my cure was to chown named /var/named. Weird???

John Hinton