My DNS servers! They won't reload!

[Atom Powers]

On 7/2/06, João Michigan <joao.michigan at yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
> Hay!
>
> Greetings from tropical Singapore!
> (though my surroundings are pretty much concrete)
> I'm experiencing difficulties reloading named on both my servers.
>
> named.conf and zone files on both servers have been tested elsewhere
> and works fine. If the problem should appear to be in one or more of
> those files let me know and I will include them to this list.

Test the zone files. ( read 'man named-checkzone' ) Particularly if
you are importing from an older version of BIND.

> So, here we go:
>
> *shrug*
>
> ---------- Server 1 FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Fri May 12 05:26:00 CEST 2006
> # rndc reload
> rndc: connection to remote host closed
> This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of
> the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect,
> or the key is invalid.

Did you set up your rndc configs? Because rndc uses a password in the
conf files to communicate it will not work with a default
configuration. Read 'man rndc'.

You can also reload your configs by restarting named: `/etc/rc.d/named restart'

Also. named is configured to run chrooted by default, make sure you
run the above restart command to set the correct permissions on the
chrooted directory.

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