named won't start

[Mike Lempriere]

Thanks for getting back to me...

I guess I was a little panicy when I entered my note, I didn't explain 
much about what I'd already done.  There was no named running, 'ps ax | 
grep named' showed only my grep and syslog.

'rndc' simply returns a "connection refused" error, I assume this is a 
poor excuse for an error mesage that really indicates that there is no 
named running to talk to.

I believe the 'in use' message is an artifact of the first failure as 
there is definately no named running.

I've just tried named-checkconf (I didn't know about that one -- thank 
you!) it says nothing, returns zero.

Didn't help -- but thanks for trying!

Doug Barton wrote:
> Mike Lempriere wrote:
>
>   
>> loading configuration: address in use
>>     
>
> This error generally means that the old named is still running. Try
> 'rndc stop', and then do 'ps -ax | grep named'. If you still see
> something running do '/etc/rc.d/named stop' check ps again, then when
> you're sure no other named is running do '/etc/rc.d/named start'
>
>   
>> I believe I did an accurate merge of my named.conf file.
>>     
>
> run named-checkconf to be sure that's not your problem.
>
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Doug
>
>   

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