My BIND is tWisted!!!

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-05-01 14:57, Fafa Diliha Romanova <fteg at london.com> wrote:
>"Ed Stover" <estover at nativenerds.com> wrote:
>>>> First off, what have you done with that machine before it stopped
>>>> working? when you try to start named does it produce any error
>>>> messages?
>>
>> You are not being helpful. lol, try this
>> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bind start
>> ps -ax |grep named
>>   Now is there a named running?
>
> Hehe :) Yeah  named is running.
>
> /etc/rc.d/named start && ps -ax | grep named:
>
>   247  ??  Ss     0:00.79 /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s
>   261  ??  Ss     0:37.36 /usr/sbin/named -u bind -t /var/named

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Having said that, you can check your /var/log/messages for interesting
bits sent there by the named process as it starts:

	# tail -f /var/log/messages | grep named

Then, restart your named and watch for interesting output.

For extra bonus points, you can add a special "named" entry in your
/etc/syslog.conf file:

	!named
	*.*				/var/log/named.log

which will direct only the messages from named to a special log file.
Remember to restart syslogd after you add this to syslog.conf and then
use tail -f on the named.log file to watch for named output.

Then, after having all the necessary information from a named reload,
you may have more hints and/or clues about what's wrong.

- Giorgos