BIND 9.7 (and Webmin)

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Sep 18, 2010, at 2:18 AM, Bill Christensen wrote:

> HI folks,
>
> I was recently asked by my credit card processor to update BIND to  
> 9.6.1 or later.  The BIND I was using was the one that comes with  
> 10.6.4 - 9.6.0, I think.
>
> So of course being a fan of MacPorts I installed the latest, 9.7.1.  
> I removed the startup item for the previous version.  But I seem to  
> be missing something critical in the setup as port 53 isn't open any  
> more and it's not responding to queries.  I see named running, and  
> when I restart BIND the pid changes so I think I'm good there.
>
> I've checked the settings against the old ones and against another  
> live server with the apple-installed BIND, and I've got some parts  
> working (I can view/add/delete zones) but as is often the case with  
> MacPorts-installations various bits and pieces aren't in mirrored  
> locations within /opt/local/.
>
> I'm using Webmin, and a few things eluded me in the config - full  
> path to whois, ndc, rndc, rndc.conf, dnssec.keygen, and dnssec- 
> signzone.  And if there's any other thing which may be causing the  
> problem that comes to mind, I'd like to hear it.

$ which whois
$ which ndc
$ which rndc

$ port contents bind9

// Brad