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Below you will find information to confirm if your nameservers (named) are running on your VPS.

To confirm named is running, SSH into your VPS as root, and run the following:

ps aux | grep named

This will show you if named is up and running, you should see something like the following:

-bash-3.00# ps aux | grep named
named 15761 0.0 1.0 36204 2660 ? Ssl 18:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/named -u named

If you do not see named running then run the following:

service named start