[afnog] DNS and BIND9

[Ronald Nsubuga]

Hi Joe

bind9 works with rndc so ckeck and see if the rndc key you generated is the
same as the one in rndc.conf file that is if named is already running
without any errors.


>
> > On 30-May-2006, at 03:34, Brian Candler wrote:
> >
> > > If 'start' doesn't work, then perhaps your named.conf is broken.
> > > Try looking
> > > in syslog (e.g. /var/log/messages) to see if any errors are logged
> > > there.
> >
> > Other things to try:
> >
> >   - named-checkconf /etc/bind/named.conf
> >
> > This uses the same configuration file parser as the normal named
> > process and will tell you if you have errors in your configuration file.
> >
> >
> >   - named -u bind -g
> >
> > The "-u bind" is the default Debian parameter, and the additional "-
> > g" will cause BIND to run in the foreground, and send all its
> > debugging information to the console (to stderr). Press ^C (or
> > whatever your interrupt key is) to stop it. The debugging information
> > might give you clues, or at least something you can paste into an e-
> > mail to afnog to give us more help.
> >
> > Note that sometimes when experimenting with starting and stopping the
> > named process you can wind up with two copies running at once. This
> > is generally unhelpful.
> >
> > You can check how many copies you have running by typing something
> > like this:
> >
> >    ps axww | grep named | grep -v grep
> >
> > If you have several running, you can kill them all at once using
> >
> >    killall named
> >
> > as root.
> >
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
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Ronald Nsubuga
Network Engineer
one2net Limited
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