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

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 05:34:40PM -0600, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote:
> 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



	Unfortunately, I don't have any answers to this problem.  I only
	know that the same thing happened to me when I tried to upgrade
	from the older, no-longer-supported bind9-3

	[My solution was to reinstall the older bind9 ....]

	I am running 7.3, altho that shouldn't make any difference... .




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