locating named.conf failed

[stoa05]

running CentOS 5.1, I am unable to start named. I did a yum install of:
bind-utils-9.3.3-10.el5
bind-9.3.3-10.el5
bind-libs-9.3.3-10.el5
bind-devel-9.3.3-10.el5

I did chkconfig --levels 35 named on
I tried: service named start
and I get the error:
[root@localhost named]# service named start
Locating //etc/named.conf failed: [FAILED]

First thing I noticed is the double forward slashes //etc - this must be a mistake, but how did it happen and how do I correct it.

If I do: ls -la /etc | grep -i bind
nothing is returned, thus named.conf does not exist, but how can this be?
Does it matter that I was in X in a terminal when I did the yum install?

I tried to get some information by debugging:
I did /etc/init.d/named -d 1
and I got the file named.run:
cat named.run
27-Feb-2008 02:57:43.829 starting BIND 9.3.3rc2 -d 1
27-Feb-2008 02:57:43.832 found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
27-Feb-2008 02:57:44.021 loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
27-Feb-2008 02:57:44.024 none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: file not found
27-Feb-2008 02:57:44.034 load_configuration: file not found
27-Feb-2008 02:57:44.035 loading configuration: file not found
27-Feb-2008 02:57:44.035 exiting (due to fatal error)

I don't know what to try next. Any help is gratefully accepted.

[cooljai]

This will help you: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17029

Thanks