Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:31:37 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: caching nameserver not working? (solved) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020306161523.1091A-100000@honk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0203051658430.66822-100000@glow>
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Thanks for everyone's help - I finally found the problem.
I am running named as user/group "bind", and in the named.conf file I have
the following set:
pid-file "/var/named/named.pid";
The /var/named directory exists and is writable by user bind
However, in my /etc/rc.conf file, I had the following line:
named_flags="-p /var/run/named.pid -u bind -g bind"
which of course is a problem since it conflicts (and was likely
overriding) the "correct" setting in named.conf
Interesting, though, the effect it had on named. The nameserver would
resolve all of the domains that it hosted, it just wouldn't resolve any
external domains.
Another side effect of this problem was that slave transfers weren't
working - I would change a zone on the master server, and the zone
would never update on the slave.
Nonetheless, by doing:
ndc stop
ndc start -u bind -g bind
and removing the "-p /var/run/named.pid" from /etc/rc.conf (so it won't
happen again next reboot)
the problem is solved.
Thanks again,
- M -
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Mike Bertsch wrote:
> Hmm. Is your firewall set to allow DNS traffic in/outbound appropriately?
> What's your logfile have to say, anything?
>
> -Mike
>
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Marty Poulin wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks, but that was a typo on my part. The config file points to
> > named.cache, and the filename is named.cache
> >
> >
> > - M -
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Mike Bertsch wrote:
> >
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > Not sure if this'll help, but it appears that your named.conf is looking
> > > for named.cache, but you mentioned you're trying to use named.root.
> > > Perhaps changing the config file to look for /etc/namedb/named.root will
> > > help?
> > >
> > > -Mike
> > >
> > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Marty Poulin wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here's a copy of my named.conf file:
> > > >
> > > > acl slaves {
> > > > 123.123.123.124;
> > > > };
> > > > options {
> > > > directory "/etc/namedb";
> > > > pid-file "/var/named/named.pid";
> > > > allow-transfer { slaves; };
> > > > };
> > > >
> > > > # type domain source host/file backup file
> > > >
> > > > zone "." {
> > > > type hint;
> > > > file "/etc/namedb/named.cache";
> > > > };
> > > >
> > > > zone "mydomain.com" {
> > > > type master;
> > > > file "db.mydomain.com";
> > > > notify yes;
> > > > also-notify { 123.123.123.124; };
> > > > };
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The named.root file is the one included with FreeBSD; I have tried
> > > > downloading a new copy with "dig @a.root-servers.net . ns > named.root"
> > > > with no luck.
> > > >
> > > > I must be missing something - can anyone give me a hand?
> > > >
> > > > (please copy me by email - I'm not subscribed to the list)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > M.
> > > >
> > > >
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