BIND9 won't start

[QADMOS]

Gelsema, P (Patrick) a écrit :
> On Sun, December 23, 2007 23:04, QADMOS wrote:
>   
>> Jonathan Horne a écrit :
>>     
>>> On Sunday 23 December 2007 02:52:43 pm QADMOS wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> i'm having a hard time with bind9.
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to set up an authoritative dns server.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately when i try to launch it with an 'rndc start' i get this
>>>>
>>>> error message :
>>>>  > rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
>>>>
>>>> I've reviewed my conf files but frankly i couldn't see what was wrong.
>>>> I've actually rewritten them from scratch several times to really check
>>>> that nothing was missing and couldn't see anything was wrong. The
>>>> localhost.rev file is configured correctly. I've also tried to
>>>> regenerate new rndc.keys and edit named.conf accordingly but to no
>>>> avail.
>>>>
>>>> I've also considered a possible file permissions in /etc/namedb and in
>>>> /var/run/named issue but that didn't yield much either.
>>>>
>>>> Finally the biggest trouble is that nothing is logged in any log file !
>>>> nothing in /var/log/messages nothing in /var/log/all.log nothing
>>>> anywhere so i'm really confused here about what direction to
>>>> investigate.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone ever encountered such an issue ?
>>>>
>>>> Thx in advance for any help.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> do you get same problem with:
>>>
>>> /etc/rc.d/named start
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Well i've also tried that actually and when i do that :
>> 1/ nothing is logged
>> 2/ nothing is launched either
>>     
>
> Do you have the following in rc.conf?
>
> hulk# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep named
> named_enable="YES"
>
> To me it seems your problem lies in the fact that named is not starting,
> so rndc can not control anything.
>
> Rgds,
>
> Patrick
>
>   
>> there's just no error message despite that the named is not running
>> (checked with ps waux | grep named )
>>     

Well Patrick i followed your suggestion and rebooted (it didn't do much 
after just editing rc.conf) the box and now "/etc/rc.d/named start" 
works fine annd named is running, 'rndc' still has the same problem 
though (???)

I'm a bit befuddled though, because i don't understand why it's 
necessary to use the named_enable directive to have named running ? I 
understand this is necessary if you want the daemon to run at boot time 
but why is this necessary if you want to run it manually once the box is 
on ?

In any case thx a lot for your help :)