named not starting during boot

[Noah Garrett Wallach]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant
>>     
> figure 
>   
>> out why.
>> there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot
>>     
> process.
>   
>> even when I manually start there are no error messages.
>>
>> # grep named /etc/rc.conf
>> named_enable="YES"
>> # pkg_info | grep bind
>> bind9-9.3.4         Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with
>>     
> updated
>
>
> why you are installing bind from ports - there is bind9 in base system. 
> and it's controlled with named_enable.
>   

because there are security exploits and keeping upto date version is 
important to me.
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php
>
> have you configured right version in right (/etc/namedb) directory?
>   

I will check that.