Hey.. it's because you're now runnign bind8.x and you need to get the new named.conf format.. tis is new format: options { directory "/etc/named"; }; logging { category lame-servers { null; }; category cname { null; }; }; zone "zeppelin.org" in { type master; file "zeppelin.org"; }; i forget the web page i got the example from. kang