named not starting during boot

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at tensor.3miasto.net
Tue Feb 27 13:52:42 UTC 2007


>
> named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant figure 
> out why.
> there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot process.
>
> even when I manually start there are no error messages.
>
> # grep named /etc/rc.conf
> named_enable="YES"
> # pkg_info | grep bind
> bind9-9.3.4         Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with updated


why you are installing bind from ports - there is bind9 in base system. 
and it's controlled with named_enable.


have you configured right version in right (/etc/namedb) directory?


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