Localhost Resolver : (a) install bind yum install bind bind-chroot bind-devel (b) Copy named.conf and related files from /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.6/sample/etc/ cp /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.6/sample/etc/* /var/named/chroot/etc/ (c) File lists in /var/named/chroot/etc are as bellows : [root@publicdns1 etc]# ls localtime named.rfc1912.zones rndc.conf named.conf named.root.hints rndc.key Check the Ownership of files. Ownership should be root:named as bellow: [root@publicdns1 etc]# pwd /var/named/chroot/etc [...]