Bind 9 not launching named...

[William H. Magill]

On Dec 31, 2010, at 6:05 PM, William H. Magill wrote:

> I have just installed the macports version of Bind 9 and am trying to get named to run...
> 
> The install apparently finishes with zero problems:

. . .

> But I find nothing in a PS indicating that bind or named is running and dig (from another host) returns:
> -----------------------<cut here>------------------
> dig @shianbrae.mcgillsociety.org mcgillsociety.org
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @shianbrae.mcgillsociety.org mcgillsociety.org 
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; res_nsend to server shianbrae.mcgillsociety.org  98.140.106.68: Connection refused
> -----------------------<cut here>------------------
> 
> What am I missing?

Duh.... found it... looking in the not-relevant log file ...

Buried in /var/log/system.log ...

named[43117]: none:0: open: /opt/local/etc/named.conf: file not found
named[43117]: loading configuration: file not found

Double DUH....

   cd /opt/local/etc
   more named.conf
   named.conf: Too many levels of symbolic links
   ln -s named.conf
  4 lrwxr--r--   1 root  admin    10 Dec 31 18:26 named.conf -> named.conf

I created the link backwards.

... Must be, to late in the day ... time to go party ... too many dumb errors!


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William H. Magill                                                            
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