named not starting during boot

J.D. Bronson jd at cs1000m.com
Tue Feb 27 16:12:19 UTC 2007


At 09:23 AM 02/27/2007, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:


>Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>>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.
>>
>
>because there are security exploits and keeping upto date version is 
>important to me.
>http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php

I actually rolled my own version of Bind (9.4.0) and have it working 
perfectly and starting under rc.conf

(I had to edit /etc/rc.d/named though)

-JD 



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