Hi,

I'm not positive what's wrong here, but I'll give it a shot anyway...

On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:22:39 -0400,
Jesse Swensen <jrs@pagesz.net> wrote:
> I am trying to get named running.  I get a couple of things I am unsure of
> 
> When netbsd first starts up I get:
> 
> configuring network interfaces:ae0.
> writing to routing socket: File exists
> add host minimac: gateway localhost: File exists

Looks like you have minimac set to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts file?

> I then look at /var/log/messages which says:
> 
> Jun 29 19:27:20 minimac named[84]: starting.  named 4.9.5-P1
> Jun 29 19:27:21 minimac named[84]: primary zone "" loaded (serial 1997062901)

This looks suspicious.  Why zone name is empty?  What are the
"primary" lines in your named.boot file?

> Then when I "nslookup minimac" I get the following:
> 
> Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1:Non-existent host/domain
> Default servers are not available.

Probably because minimac has the IP address 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts.
You should list minimac as 192.168.0.1 in it...

Ken