On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:19:23PM +1100, Alasdair wrote:
> $ cd /var/chroot/named/etc
> $ ls
> localtime  named.conf namedb
> $ cd namedb
> $ ls
> cache  namedb
> $ cd namedb
> $ ls
> 127          localhost    loopback.v6  root.cache
> $ ls -l
> total 20
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   259 Feb 12 23:34 127
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   286 Feb 12 23:34 localhost
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   262 Feb 12 23:34 loopback.v6
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2583 Feb 12 23:34 root.cache

That looks allright. Are the directory permissions correct?

> The name of my machine is localhost.local
> st.net could this be confusing something somewhere?

"named" doesn't really care about the name of the machine.

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