From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 23 21:48:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B72C16A41A for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:48:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from pollux.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-244.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D2A13C455 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:48:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.dfwlp.com (athena.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by pollux.dfwlp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBNLmFQV033241 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:48:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:48:14 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <476ECA9B.4090805@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <476ECA9B.4090805@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712231548.14320.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on pollux.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: BIND9 won't start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:48:18 -0000 On Sunday 23 December 2007 02:52:43 pm QADMOS wrote: > Hi everyone, > > i'm having a hard time with bind9. > > I'm trying to set up an authoritative dns server. > > Unfortunately when i try to launch it with an 'rndc start' i get this > > error message : > > rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused > > I've reviewed my conf files but frankly i couldn't see what was wrong. > I've actually rewritten them from scratch several times to really check > that nothing was missing and couldn't see anything was wrong. The > localhost.rev file is configured correctly. I've also tried to > regenerate new rndc.keys and edit named.conf accordingly but to no avail. > > I've also considered a possible file permissions in /etc/namedb and in > /var/run/named issue but that didn't yield much either. > > Finally the biggest trouble is that nothing is logged in any log file ! > nothing in /var/log/messages nothing in /var/log/all.log nothing > anywhere so i'm really confused here about what direction to investigate. > > Has anyone ever encountered such an issue ? > > Thx in advance for any help. do you get same problem with: /etc/rc.d/named start ? -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com