FC3 DNS issues

[Paul Howarth]

Bill wrote:
> Maybe I should have provided a few more bits of info...
> 
> Out of the box full FC3 install has the chrooted files are linked back 
> into the non-chroot location which is /var/named. Webmin will work with 
> it and see it as long as all files are linked back to /var/named. Which 
> is the way it is until you add new zone files then one needs to manually 
> locate them to the chroot location and link the files back out. All 
> works well.
> 
> Currently my DNS server is working very well, but I can not control it 
> with the 'service named ....' or Webmin. I can modify it with Webmin, 
> but not stop or start it. It requires a reboot to take up the changes. 
> All files are standard out of the box installation except for my added 
> in zone files. This also was working without this start & stop issue up 
> to yesterday afternoon, but not working well with the other clients on 
> the network. I fixed a couple of things and somewhere along the way it 
> broke. Guess I need to go backwards in the configuration and work my way 
> back out of it to see if it starts working with the tools again. Dig and 
> nslookup both work fine with this too.
> 
> I have one suggestion to look at the rndc.key portions of the 
> configuration which I will do this afternoon.

This is good advice. Make sure that /etc/rndc.conf is a link to the one 
in your chroot, and that /etc/named.conf in the chroot "includes" 
/etc/rndc.conf

Paul.