rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused

[Mark Andrews]

In message <a035ff0bce7803787bd454078722a2a9 at mail.isot.com>, Squirrel writes:
> My BIND9.6.0 on FreeBSD 6.2 works fine when I manually start with:
> 
>    root at ns2# named -4 -S 1024 -c /etc/namedb/named.conf
> 
> But it won't start on boot and no error messages or log.  And it won't start 
> using rndc, it cause error message.  Why does the error shows port 953 when I
> specified for port 53 in the config?

	Port 53 is for DNS.
	Port 952 is the default port for RNDC.
 
>    rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
	
	Run "named -4 -S 1024 -c /etc/namedb/named.conf -g" and read the
	messages.

> Below are parts of my configs:
> 
> /etc/rc.conf:
>    named_enable="YES"
>    named_flags="-4 -S 1024 -c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
>    ....
> 
> /etc/rndc.key:
>    key "rndc-key" {
>         algorithm hmac-md5;
>         secret "y9eca/WZydNfi.......................";
>    };
> 
> /etc/namedb/rndc.conf:
>    include "/etc/namedb/rndc.key";  
>    options {
>         default-server  localhost;
>         default-key     "rndc-key";
>    };
>    server localhost {
>         key     "rndc-key";
>    };
>    ...
> 
> /etc/namedb/named.conf:
>    include "/etc/namedb/rndc.key";
>    acl internals {  
>                aa.bb.cc.0/20;
>                192.168.1.0/24;
>                127.0.0.0/8;
>    };
>    controls {
>         inet 127.0.0.1 port 53 allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { rndc-key; };
>    };
>    options {
>         pid-file "/var/run/named.pid";
>         directory "/etc/namedb";
>         statistics-file "/var/log/named/named.stats";
>         dump-file "/var/log/named/named.dump";
>         zone-statistics yes;
>         allow-query { 127.0.0.1; 66.187.80.0/20; };
>    };
>    logging {
>         category "default"   { simple_log; };
>         channel simple_log {
>                 file "/var/log/named/named.log" versions 5 size 20m;
>                 severity warning;
>                 print-time yes;
>                 print-category yes;
>                 print-severity yes;
>    };
>    ...
> 
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