Hi Guys,
I am trying to configure DNS on ESX server.
Everything done but when I am trying to start the DNS, it gives me an error
[root@linux3 etc]# service named restart
Stopping named: [ OK ]
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:42: when using 'view' statements, all zones must be in views
[FAILED]
[root@linux3 etc]#
Help me out please.
Thanks in advance
/Sirvesh :wall:
Obviously it doesn't like something in your /etc/named.conf. Could you post it please?
Your output says to look at line 42 of your /etc/named.conf file...
Here is my named.conf ... have a look
Now it is line 58 as i have made some changes ... I have enter the logs ....
[root@linux3 log]# service named start
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:58: when using 'view' statements, all zones must be in views
[FAILED]
[root@linux3 log]#
[root@linux3 log]# cat /etc/named.conf
//
// named.caching-nameserver.conf
//
// Provided by Red Hat caching-nameserver package to configure the
// ISC BIND named(8) DNS server as a caching only nameserver
// (as a localhost DNS resolver only).
//
// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
//
// DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - use system-config-bind or an editor
// to create named.conf - edits to this file will be lost on
// caching-nameserver package upgrade.
//
options {
listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; 10.141.228.58; };
listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory "/var/named";
pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
// Those options should be used carefully because they disable port
// randomization
// query-source port 53;
// query-source-v6 port 53;
allow-query {localhost; 10.141.228.0/24; };
allow-query-cache { localhost; };
};
logging {
channel default_file { file "/var/log/named/default.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity dynamic; print-time yes; };
channel general_file { file "/var/log/named/general.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity dynamic; print-time yes; };
channel database_file { file "/var/log/named/database.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity dynamic; print-time yes; };
channel notify_file { file "/var/log/named/notify.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity dynamic; print-time yes; };
channel queries_file { file "/var/log/named/queries.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity dynamic; print-time yes; };
channel network_file { file "/var/log/named/network.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity dynamic; print-time yes; };
category default { default_file; };
category general { general_file; };
category database { database_file; };
category notify { notify_file; };
category queries { queries_file; };
category network { network_file; };
};
//logging {
// channel default_debug {
// file "data/named.run";
// severity dynamic;
// };
//}
view localhost_resolver {
match-clients { localhost; };
match-destinations { localhost; };
recursion yes;
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
};
zone "loop.net" IN {
type master;
file "loop.net.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "228.141.10.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "228.141.10.rev";
allow-update { none; };
};
Is this empty line normal?
channel queries_file { file "/var/log/named/queries.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity dynamic; print-time yes; };
channel network_file { file "/var/log/named/network.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity dynamic; print-time yes; };
category default { default_file; };
category general { general_file; };
Yes...
It is normal issue is start from this, zone is the line 58
zone "loop.net" IN {
---------- Post updated at 08:34 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:29 AM ----------
Hi ,
This issue get resolved ...
via this
view localhost_resolver {
match-clients { localhost; };
match-destinations { localhost; };
recursion yes;
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
zone "loop.net" IN {
type master;
file "loop.net.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "228.141.10.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "228.141.10.rev";
allow-update { none; };
};
};
But now I am in new mess .... While going to start DNS i got this error in /var/log/messages ..
Dec 2 18:54:33 linux3 named[28432]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5_7.1 -u named -t /var/named/chroot
Dec 2 18:54:33 linux3 named[28432]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
Dec 2 18:54:33 linux3 named[28432]: using up to 4096 sockets
Dec 2 18:54:33 linux3 named[28432]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Dec 2 18:54:33 linux3 named[28432]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: permission denied
Dec 2 18:54:33 linux3 named[28432]: loading configuration: permission denied
Dec 2 18:54:33 linux3 named[28432]: exiting (due to fatal error)
---------- Post updated at 09:44 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:34 AM ----------
Thanks to you guys ..
Issue resolved... 
Glad it's working.
For the benefit of future struggling googlers, how was this issue resolved? Only thing more annoying than googling a problem and finding an unanswered question is finding a problem that was solved but gives no information on how 
Sure,
1st issue got resolve after adding the "ZONE" within "View".
2nd issue resolved after giving permission to named group to the file "named.conf"
Hope it will help. 