Your named isnt starting because of errors in your named.conf. You can look in /var/log/messages for more information on whats going wrong. I am pasting my previous reply to you here on the list. ========================================================== In /etc/named.conf zone "com" {type delegation-only;}; Should look something like this: ======================= zone "pcm.com" IN { type master; file "/var/named/pcm.com.zone"; }; zone "10.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "/var/named/10.in-addr.arpa.zone"; }; ======================= In your file /var/named/pcm.com.zone you should have: ================================================== $TTL 86400 $ORIGIN pcm.com. @ 1D IN SOA ns.pcm.com. root ( 2004070703 ; serial 3H ; refresh 15M ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ) ; minimum 1D IN NS 10.0.1.2 nms 1D IN A 10.0.1.25 ns 1D IN A 10.0.1.2 (and so on for each host) ================================================== In your /var/named/10.in-addr.arpa.zone ================================================== @ IN SOA ns.pcm.com. root.pcm.com. ( 2004070702 ; serial 3H ; refresh 15M ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ) ; minimum @ NS ns.pcm.com. NS nms.pcm.com. $ORIGIN 1.0.10.in-addr.arpa. 2 PTR ns.pcm.com. 25 PTR nms.pcm.com. (and so on for each host) ================================================== I hope this helped. Sorry I dont have time right now to go through all your zone files as I am in a bit of a rush at the moment. I think you can customize the above examples to suit your needs. I tend to keep my zone files in /var/named whereas from your config it looks like you keep them in /etc/bind. Please adjust to suit your needs. Regards, Ahsan Ali State Bank of Pakistan ====================================================== - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html