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On 7 July 2011, at 22:58, Gary Kline wrote:

>> Jul  7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: =
file not found

>> Jul  7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1 -c =
/var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf

The first one that fails is looking for /etc/named.conf.  The second one =
shows its in /var/named/etc/named/named.conf


Those are different locations.  I suspect you have named_flags setup in =
rc.conf pointing to /etc/namedb/named.conf rather than the right =
location.  Its also possible that its not set in rc.conf but defaults in =
either the rc script or /etc/rc.d/named.  On my system it appears to =
default in /etc/rc.d/named.=