Big Sur on M1 - bind9 named daemon don't run

Mark Lucas mllists at arc.co.uk
Thu Sep 22 14:55:06 UTC 2022


Sorry to probably ask the obvious but what command do I use to start it manually?

> On 22 Sep 2022, at 15:27, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 22, 2022, at 8:56 AM, Mark Lucas <mark at arc.co.uk> wrote:
>> I just updated to bind 9.18.7 (Intel mac mini - macOS 12.6 ) and despite checking the config was ok, which it was, bind refuses to start. 
>> Looking at the contents of /opt/local/var/named/ mysteriously most of the files were now listed as being owned by non existent user 511. 
>> e.g. -rw-r--r--   1 511    named  -           3.2K  4 Aug  2021 named.root
>> Tried uninstalling and reinstalling bind9 and changing /opt/local/var/named/ files owner to named but the problem remains.
> 
> I think the permissions stuff is unrelated to the port - it only installs these files into /opt/local/var/named:
> 
> % port contents bind9 | grep /opt/local/var/named
>  /opt/local/var/named/db.127.0.0.dist
>  /opt/local/var/named/db.cache.dist
>  /opt/local/var/named/db.localhost.dist
> 
> You can try to start named by hand with `-g` (and maybe add a -d # option) to try to get more information on why it's not starting for you.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel J. Luke
> 

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