recient problem with bind en 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180:

[Edwin L. Culp W.]

Out of the clear, I can no longer start named from /etc/rc.d/named
start.  The only error message that I get is in log/messages

Mar  7 17:13:59 unixmania named[99841]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u
bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind
Mar  7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: could not configure root hints
from 'named.root': file not found
Mar  7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: loading configuration: file not found
Mar  7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u
bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind
Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: could not configure root hints
from 'named.root': file not found
Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: loading configuration: file not found
Mar  7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: exiting (due to fatal error

named.root is in /var/named/etc/namedb and contains the same as my
bind 9.6 on current.  adding an ls to named.root

ls -l /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root /etc/namedb/named.root

-rw-r--r--  1 bind  wheel  3074 Jun 28  2010 /etc/namedb/named.root
-rw-r--r--  1 bind  wheel  3074 Jun 28  2010 /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root

I can't  find any major differences with this and 9.6 that works fine.

when I try to start it notes that it isn't running and isn't abel to start.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I am running

7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180: Wed Jan 26 04:33:51 CST 2011

Thanks,

ed