bind : zone file not found

[Christopher K. Johnson]

sid wrote:

>this is long but here is how my dns is configure.
>bind-chroot-....rpm  made the directories
>and I used redhat-config-bind to do this config.
>
>
>/var/named/chroot	
>
>	/dev/null
>	     random
>	
>	/etc/localtime
>	      named.conf
>	      named.custom
>	      mdc.key
>			
>	/var/named/0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.zone
>		   0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.zone
>		   localhost.zone
>		   sid.local.zone
>			
>  
>
[SNIP]

Do you have an options section like the following in your named.conf?  
If not then you need one.  Otherwise bind is looking for 
/var/named/chroot/sid.local.zone etc. instead of 
/var/named/chroot/var/named/sid.local.zone etc.

options {
        directory "/var/named";
};


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