I am using squid + redhat caching name server. my named.conf is configured as below. // // named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver // options { directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; forward only; forwarders { x.x.x.x; x.x.x.x; }; additional-from-cache yes; }; // // a caching only nameserver config // controls { inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; }; }; zone "." IN { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "localdomain" IN { type master; file "localdomain.zone"; allow-update { 127.0.0.1; }; }; zone "localhost" IN { type master; file "localhost.zone"; allow-update { 127.0.0.1; }; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "named.local"; allow-update { none; }; }; zone "255.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "named.broadcast"; allow-update { none; }; }; zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "named.zero"; allow-update { none; }; }; include "/etc/rndc.key"; When I check the cache zone. named-checkzone named-checkzone . /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.ca. I get message , zone ./IN: could not find NS and/or SOA records zone ./IN: has 0 SOA records My Internet access is slower than before. Can someone suggest how can this be optimized. With regards. Durga Prasad.