[Novices] DNS help again

[Jessica Caswell]

This is for Linux Server Red Hat 9.  Ok i checked my named.conf and that is 
fine...my forward and reverse lookup zones that i had to create for this 
class is fine as well.  I am not connected to the internet because WMU is 
too cheap to do so.  So we had to create our own forward and reverse lookup 
zones in order to create a DNS.  I looked at my reslove.conf files and they 
check out ok.  I looked at my rndc.key file and i can see this huge 
algorithm that looks as it should.  I looked at my named.custom and added my 
IP address to the forwarders. However I am looking at my 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/named file and there is a file called 
/var/lock/subsys/named that it refers to and i looked at that and its empty. 
  Is this normal or should I see something?  I still get the rndc 
"connnection failed; connection refused" line and I am going to beat this 
computer to death..  So if anyone could help that would be great.


Jessica L. Caswell
Computer Information Systems Major
Western Michigan University

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