zone 7.168.192.in-addr.arpa: already exists

Question

Hi there, anyone please help me why i am getting this kind of error when i restarted my named service

[root@ns1 named]# service named restart
Stopping named:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:62: zone &#39 7.168.192.in-addr.arpa&#39 : already exists previous definition: /etc/named.conf:49
                                                           [FAILED]

How to solve this error?

parthiban · Answer

it's seems you have already configured a reverse zone 7.168.192.in-addr.arpa in the 49th line of your named.conf file, so you cannot create a second reverse zone for a domain