BIND9 won't start

[Jerry McAllister]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 11:45:58PM +0100, QADMOS wrote:

> Gelsema, P (Patrick) a écrit :
> >On Sun, December 23, 2007 23:04, QADMOS wrote:
> >  
> >>Jonathan Horne a écrit :
> >>    
> >>>On Sunday 23 December 2007 02:52:43 pm QADMOS wrote:
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>>Hi everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>>i'm having a hard time with bind9.
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm trying to set up an authoritative dns server.
> >>>>
> >>>>Unfortunately when i try to launch it with an 'rndc start' i get this
> >>>>
> >>>>error message :
> >>>> > rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
> >>>>
> >>>>I've reviewed my conf files but frankly i couldn't see what was wrong.
> >>>>I've actually rewritten them from scratch several times to really check
> >>>>that nothing was missing and couldn't see anything was wrong. The
> >>>>localhost.rev file is configured correctly. I've also tried to
> >>>>regenerate new rndc.keys and edit named.conf accordingly but to no
> >>>>avail.
> >>>>
> >>>>I've also considered a possible file permissions in /etc/namedb and in
> >>>>/var/run/named issue but that didn't yield much either.
> >>>>
> >>>>Finally the biggest trouble is that nothing is logged in any log file !
> >>>>nothing in /var/log/messages nothing in /var/log/all.log nothing
> >>>>anywhere so i'm really confused here about what direction to
> >>>>investigate.
> >>>>
> >>>>Has anyone ever encountered such an issue ?
> >>>>
> >>>>Thx in advance for any help.
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>do you get same problem with:
> >>>
> >>>/etc/rc.d/named start
> >>>
> >>>?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>Well i've also tried that actually and when i do that :
> >>1/ nothing is logged
> >>2/ nothing is launched either
> >>    
> >
> >Do you have the following in rc.conf?
> >
> >hulk# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep named
> >named_enable="YES"
> >
> >To me it seems your problem lies in the fact that named is not starting,
> >so rndc can not control anything.
> >
> >Rgds,
> >
> >Patrick
> >
> >  
> >>there's just no error message despite that the named is not running
> >>(checked with ps waux | grep named )
> >>    
> 
> Well Patrick i followed your suggestion and rebooted (it didn't do much 
> after just editing rc.conf) the box and now "/etc/rc.d/named start" 
> works fine annd named is running, 'rndc' still has the same problem 
> though (???)
> 
> I'm a bit befuddled though, because i don't understand why it's 
> necessary to use the named_enable directive to have named running ? I 
> understand this is necessary if you want the daemon to run at boot time 
> but why is this necessary if you want to run it manually once the box is 
> on ?

Well, if you use the rc script or any of the other scripts that might
be supplied with it to start it, then that script checks that variable - 
namely 'named_enable' and if it is not set, the script exits without
doing anything.

////jerry

> 
> In any case thx a lot for your help :)
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