Bind 9 not launching named...

[Merton Campbell Crockett]

I am not familiar with BIND distributed under MacPorts.  I use the distribution from ISC; however, you mentioned that you were moving from a BIND version 8.

There is a significant difference between version 8 and 9 of BIND.  Zone files that may have loaded under BIND 8 will not necessarily load under BIND 9 due to more stringent checking of the zone files.  Run the following command to verify the zone files.

    sudo named-checkzone <domain> <zone_file>

When taking over responsibility for DNS from colleagues and switching from BIND 8 to 9, I discovered that I inherited a number of zone files containing errors.  BIND 9 refused to load due to the errors in the zone files.

Sent from my iPad:  m.c.crockett at roadrunner.com



On Dec 31, 2010, at 15:05, "William H. Magill" <magill at me.com> 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:
> 
> -----------------------<cut here>------------------
> --->  Creating launchd control script
> ###########################################################
> # A startup item has been generated that will aid in
> # starting bind9 with launchd. It is disabled
> # by default. Execute the following command to start it,
> # and to cause it to launch at startup:
> #
> # sudo port load bind9
> ###########################################################
> --->  Installing bind9 @9.7.2-P3_0
> --->  Activating bind9 @9.7.2-P3_0
> 
> ******************************************************
> * To setup named to run, you need to copy named.conf.dist
> * to named.conf:
> * sudo cp /opt/local/etc/named.conf.dist /opt/local/etc/named.conf
> * and edit as needed. If you use the default zone files for
> * 127.0.0, localhost, and the cache, you also need to copy
> * those files:
> * sudo cp /opt/local/var/named/db.127.0.0.dist /opt/local/var/named/db.127.0.0
> * sudo cp /opt/local/var/named/db.cache.dist /opt/local/var/named/db.cache
> * sudo cp /opt/local/var/named/db.localhost.dist /opt/local/var/named/db.localhost
> ******************************************************
> 
> --->  Cleaning bind9
> -----------------------<cut here>------------------
> 
> I've done all the named file manipulations (this is an "upgrade" from an old Tru64 host running bind 8).
> 
> However, named is not running.
> 
> Running the command: sudo port load bind9 yields: 
> 
> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_net_bind9/main.log
> 
> -----------------------<cut here>------------------
> cat main.log
> version:1
> :debug:main Executing org.macports.main (bind9)
> :debug:load load phase started at Fri Dec 31 16:54:47 EST 2010
> :debug:load Executing org.macports.load (bind9)
> :error:load Target org.macports.load returned: org.macports.bind9: Already loaded
> :debug:load Backtrace: org.macports.bind9: Already loaded
>    while executing
> "exec $launchctl_path load -w $path"
>    (procedure "portload::load_main" line 11)
>    invoked from within
> "$procedure $targetname"
> :info:load Warning: the following items did not execute (for bind9): org.macports.load
> :notice:load Log for bind9 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_net_bind9/main.log
> -----------------------<cut here>------------------
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
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