Following the instructions from tutorial books (such as UNIX system 
Admin) I can feel my way through certain goals.  One which I am 
attempting is rebuilding my DNS info from the information on my other 
MAC DNS machine.

After installing BIND 8.x and then having no luck I installed the 
4.9.7 and followed the directions.  Each file is named correctly and 
listed in the correct directories.  I test my DNS using named and get 
the following error in response:

cant open '/usr/pkg/etc/named.conf'

understandably.. because I was never asked to create them in the 
instructions.  I was also under the impression that I was building 
the settings under BIND 4.9.7 not 8.2.2

This is where books fail to help.  I've read through several chapters 
of Orielly Bookshelf and they claim the files I should be creating 
are called db. files.

My head is about to explode and really am trying hard to grasp the information.

Is there a better route or any help you can offer?

Thanks

mark nathan
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