Bind9 Problem, please help

[Mark Andrews]

> ok, after reading all your replies (thank you very much), it seems the my problem with dev has been fixed, 
> what i did was i recreated my /u1/dns/dev that matches the one that's on /dev,
> 
> /dev
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    2,   2 Oct 28 12:00 /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  249,   0 Oct 28 00:57 /dev/random
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    2,  12 Oct 27 16:57 /dev/zero
> 
> /u1/dns/dev
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  daemon    2,   2 Oct 28 11:52 null
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  daemon  249,   0 Oct 28 11:52 random
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  daemon    2,  12 Oct 28 11:52 zero
> 
> 
> i cranked it up and i got this 
> ===
> Oct 28 12:00:24 mailhub named[85612]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -t /u1/dns -c /etc/named.conf -f
> Oct 28 12:00:25 mailhub named[85612]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> Oct 28 12:01:39 mailhub named[85846]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -t /u1/dns -c /etc/named.conf -f
> Oct 28 12:01:39 mailhub named[85846]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> Oct 28 12:01:40 mailhub named[85848]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -t /u1/dns -c /etc/named.conf -f
> Oct 28 12:01:40 mailhub named[85848]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> Oct 28 12:01:41 mailhub named[85850]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -t /u1/dns -c /etc/named.conf -f
> Oct 28 12:01:41 mailhub named[85850]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> Oct 28 12:01:42 mailhub named[85860]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -t /u1/dns -c /etc/named.conf -f
> Oct 28 12:01:42 mailhub named[85860]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> ===
> it's a looping message

Stop whatever you are using to start named.

As root run "named -u bind -t /u1/dns -c /etc/named.conf -g"

This will keep named in the foreground and send to logs to the
terminal.  Once you have addressed whatever problems are
reported you can go back to doing what you were doing.

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