After Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update, the service "named" fails with: "Error in named configuration: - /etc/named.conf:14: change directory to '/named/files' failed: file not found"

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Issue

After Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update, the service named fails with the following error:

# service named start
Starting named: 
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:14: change directory to '/named/files' failed: file not found

/etc/named.conf:14: parsing failed
                                                           [FAILED]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • 6.x

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