On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:16:50AM +1100, Alasdair wrote:
> localhost named [255] could not configure root hosts from 'root cache':file
> not found
> local host named [255]loading config file : file not found
> local host named [255] exiting due to fatal error
> I checked and double checked that all the suggested changes had been successfuly carried out, all the files are in the right places.

It looks like you didn't copy the directory "/etc/namedb" (and all the
files in it) to "/var/chroot/named/etc".

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/