[SOLVED] named on debian 11, where are the logs?

Edit: Found it. It's /var/log/syslog. This also helped me with the issue I was having as it turned out to be permissions:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1156...ng-not-working

I'm having trouble stating named, but systemd is pretty much useless as far as output goes. I'm trying to figure out where I'm suppose to look to see why things are failing.

I added the following to the named.conf.options file:

Code:
logging {
channel bind_log {
file "/var/log/bind/bind.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity info;
print-category yes;
print-severity yes;
print-time yes;
};
category default { bind_log; };
category update { bind_log; };
category update-security { bind_log; };
category security { bind_log; };
category queries { bind_log; };
category lame-servers { null; };
};Also created the directory /var/log/bind.

No go, it's not generating a log. It won't start, and I don't know why because there is no output going anywhere. Any way to figure out why it's failing to start? Could be something wrong with config, but there's no way to know. named-checkconf also outputs nothing.