From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 23:34:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF76B106566C for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:34:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwinlculp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA148FC08 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so4936449vws.13 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:34:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=uSiKL+0RLDTUhu4z7iINHsqb7rmsuWx40WtbaRHezqs=; b=sTexif5uQvvoGzoe0llQAkBAkjomQbxXG384J+Whs47k9sPC0uuOyHpWTbjuUoLFd7 fGoKQq9pgrnjQR5ALbNwTpyRKpqzwgFizrJBzMwE/7XlwMjV/S6ShqHv4Uqn/3jLOxHv Dsu3o0NSgQRBVnPNXHWT+RTV9xOf7dNoOPnoE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=MneEQ2oRPqtccyB1LVesAkuV88eNzGklCZtpnr9M7ohku81Y14c8hrQEu8sdC+WqLv Q3SAt/3icnAnuL9EhyLaVPdN0nLgEyafv/SwOBI6GP+t9G8Kjrk/IxxbCrJynB/xs0zv MelcxFpZK4fFqgTULH+0+cY3Meb0Mp92F9lEU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.88.113 with SMTP id bf17mr6275540vdb.219.1299540880816; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:34:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.179.131 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:34:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:34:40 -0600 Message-ID: From: "Edwin L. Culp W." To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: recient problem with bind en 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:34:42 -0000 Out of the clear, I can no longer start named from /etc/rc.d/named start. The only error message that I get is in log/messages Mar 7 17:13:59 unixmania named[99841]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind Mar 7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found Mar 7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: loading configuration: file not found Mar 7 17:14:00 unixmania named[99841]: exiting (due to fatal error) Mar 7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4 -u bind -4 -t /var/named -u bind Mar 7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found Mar 7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: loading configuration: file not found Mar 7 17:14:05 unixmania named[99940]: exiting (due to fatal error named.root is in /var/named/etc/namedb and contains the same as my bind 9.6 on current. adding an ls to named.root ls -l /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root /etc/namedb/named.root -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 3074 Jun 28 2010 /etc/namedb/named.root -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 3074 Jun 28 2010 /var/named/etc/namedb/named.root I can't find any major differences with this and 9.6 that works fine. when I try to start it notes that it isn't running and isn't abel to start. Thanks for any suggestions. I am running 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180: Wed Jan 26 04:33:51 CST 2011 Thanks, ed