From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 24 16:38:39 2007 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 0B42E16A41B for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:38:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68FA13C4D5 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:38:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBOGbWqe067570; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:37:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id lBOGbW22067569; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:37:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:37:32 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: QADMOS Message-ID: <20071224163732.GC67475@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <476EE526.2000501@free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND9 won't start 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, 24 Dec 2007 16:38:39 -0000 On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 11:45:58PM +0100, 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 ? Well, if you use the rc script or any of the other scripts that might be supplied with it to start it, then that script checks that variable - namely 'named_enable' and if it is not set, the script exits without doing anything. ////jerry > > In any case thx a lot for your help :) > _______________________________________________ > 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" >