In article <46010BD3.1070307@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Upon installing Centos 4.4 a second time it worked "out of the box" as > expected. Sorry that I caused a stir over a non-problem. I still have > no idea what I did that may have caused dns to fail, I think I made all > the same choices and entries the second time around? However doing this > in the wee hours I had no interruptions or distractions ... > > Should anyone be interested the dns servers are: > cat /etc/resolv.conf > nameserver 12.189.32.61 > nameserver 208.67.222.222 > nameserver 208.67.220.220 These are all external to your box. > but there may be a problem here: > service named status > rndc: connect failed: connection refused So this isn't a problem - you don't need named running on the box unless you want to support having "nameserver 127.0.0.1" in your resolv.conf Hope this helps. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - http://tony.mountifield.org _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos