BIND9 doesn't seem to do anything

[J65nko BSD]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:57:50 -0700, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> wrote:
> The named process is always in the kserel state.  I've got no idea
> what that is, and all I can find on Google is that programs hang in
> that state.  So I don't know what to do.  There's no output, I can't
> find any logs, there's just no way for me to tell what's wrong.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:59:46 -0800, Thomas Foster <tbonius at comcast.net> wrote:
> > you might want to add named_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf
> >
> > check out the following tutorial on setting up Bind9
> >
> > http://www.section6.net/help/bind.php
> >
> > Hope this helps..
> >
> > T
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pat Maddox" <pergesu at gmail.com>
> > To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 3:54 PM
> > Subject: BIND9 doesn't seem to do anything
> >
> > >I installed BIND9 from the ports earlier, edited the config files a
> > > bit, but I can't get it to run at all.  When I type named, or
> > > /etc/rc.d/named start, there's no output at all, and then I find that
> > > named isn't running.  I've tried this again with the default install
> > > as well, without touching and files, but same thing.  There also isn't
> > > anything in the logs folder, so I guess it's not creating an error log
> > > of anything.  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Pat
netstat -an -f inet should show something like this. A nameserver
LISTENing on port 53 for  TCP and another line for for UDP.

tcp        0      0  192.168.222.10.53      *.*                    LISTEN

udp        0      0  192.168.222.10.53      *.* 

=Adriaan=