gracecott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Anyways, I did what ever you guys instructed me to do. However, named > just refuses to get off the ground. Do you mean that named doesn't start? > the other computers on my network just refuse to connect to my NS and > exit with a ":timed out, no servers reached" error > When I stop named , I get an error rndc :connect failed : connection refused Both of which suggests that named isn't starting. I suggest that you check the log files for the messages which named prints at startup. -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx> - : 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