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Date:      Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:15:03 -0600
From:      Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.org>
To:        QADMOS <qadmos@free.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND9 won't start
Message-ID:  <476EFA07.4010306@dfwlp.org>
In-Reply-To: <476EE526.2000501@free.fr>
References:  <476ECA9B.4090805@free.fr> <200712231548.14320.freebsd@dfwlp.com>	<476EDB8B.5060301@free.fr>	<1642.10.202.77.197.1198448071.squirrel@webmail.superhero.nl> <476EE526.2000501@free.fr>

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QADMOS wrote:
> 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 :)

the entries in the rc.conf are there for system security.  [something] 
might be installed, but its not supposed to be allowed to run unless the 
system admin knows about it.

otherwise, there is always 'forcestart' intead of 'start'.

cheers,

-- 
Jonathan Horne
http://www.dfwlp.org
jhorne@dfwlp.org




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