Why is named started, but not being used?

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On 11/18/07, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> /sbin/chkconfig named --list
> named           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
>
> named     2794  0.0  0.5 131440 10568 ?        Ssl  Nov16
> 0:00 /usr/sbin/named -u named -D -t /var/named/chroot
>
> Well, someone started named!
>
> But I checked using wireshark.  Repeating the same query resulted in dns
> packets being sent out - so it seems the local named isn't being used.

Check /etc/resolv.conf.  I've seen recently that NetworkManager or
dhclient is writing the name servers received from the DHCP server
into /etc/resolv.conf rather than 127.0.0.1 being in /etc/resolv.conf
and using D-Bus to tell named about the local name servers.

Jeff