* Subba Rao (subb3 at ibm.net) [990828 21:18]:
> Everything works fine. Following other books on DNS, they do cover some
> material on the file "/etc/named.boot". I did not see any reference of this in the HOWTO.
your books are old and covering the older (but still used)
version of bind, bind 4. its main config file was named.boot.
but bind 8 (the version you are most likely running) uses the
file named.conf.
named.boot == named.conf
named.boot == bind 4
named.conf == bind 8
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