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On Tuesday 02 September 2008 08:12:13 Richard Yang wrote:
[snip]
> To start named is pretty much the first step before going to configure
> BIND. I have to reinstall it and it still doesn't work.

Personally, I would have said it's exactly the other way round: you shouldn't  
start named until after you've configured it.

Are you seeing any messages in the log files (I'm fairly sure BIND logs 
in /var/log/messages)?

Jonathan