DNS and file system messed up...

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 06:00:42PM +0000, Gary Kline wrote:
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:00:42 +0000
> From: Gary Kline <kline at magnesium.net>
> Subject: DNS and file system messed up...
> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
> 
> 
> Guys,
> 
> I'd be much obliged to learn why /etc/rc.named start fails.   This has been going
> on for months.  For some reason freebsd.org doesn't recognize part of my 
> domain, so I'm writing from my backup site, magnesium net.
> 
> I did *somrthing* that keeps /etc/rc.d/named from working correctly.  On the 
> second line below the ^+++++, you'll see a "none:0:/etc/named.conf" from 
> messages.  The only way I can exec bind9 is by first doing a kill -9, then
> explicitly starting named and then, with the -c switch , aiming it at my 
> *real* named.conf.  
> 
> I don't want to finish my new/latest install of 7.3 until I understand 
> this screwup.  
> 


	Nobody has any clues to the capture output?  I'm surprised.

	-g

> 
> 
> 
> # sh /etc/rc.d/named start
> Starting named.
> 
> +++++
> # tail /var/log/messages
> Jul  7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1 -t /var/named -u bind
> Jul  7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: file not found
> Jul  7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: loading configuration: file not found
> Jul  7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> 
> # tail /var/log/messages
> # kill -9 `head -1 /var/run/named/pid`
> # /usr/local/sbin/named -c /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf
> 
> Jul  7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1 -c /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf
> Jul  7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: command channel listening on
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Jul  7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: command channel listening on ::1#953
> Jul  7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: running
> 
> +++++
> 
> 
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