Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:00:11 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: "Edwin L. Culp W." <edwinlculp@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: recient problem with bind en 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #1180: Message-ID: <20110308000011.GA31989@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiks7RNmTcDFj4Z2fNeLcQ2ziifNavAZnAruOvNg@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTiks7RNmTcDFj4Z2fNeLcQ2ziifNavAZnAruOvNg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 05:34:40PM -0600, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: > 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 Unfortunately, I don't have any answers to this problem. I only know that the same thing happened to me when I tried to upgrade from the older, no-longer-supported bind9-3 [My solution was to reinstall the older bind9 ....] I am running 7.3, altho that shouldn't make any difference... . > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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