From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 23:03:46 2011 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 DBBDE1065674 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:03:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@ethic.thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A003F8FC1A for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ethic.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p0JN3eeo082704; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@ethic.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id p0JN3eQH082703; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:03:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:03:39 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20110119230336.GA82615@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. Cc: Subject: named/bind problems.... 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: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:03:46 -0000 Yesterday noon my time I rebooted my server. Things seemed to be slow. Several streams were hanging or stopping, and because ethic.thought.org had been up for 61 days I figured it wouldn't hurt to reinitialize stuff. Well, nutshell, disaster. For hours it wasn't clear whether the server would survive, but eventually i got a portupgrade -avOPk going and now I am close to having every port rebuilt. Now host kuow.org gives the the IP address of the U/Washington. Etc. last night for unknown reasons even this failed. I remembered that late last fall I was warned the "bind9" was nearing its end/life. I okayed the portupgrade to remove bind9 and install whatever its follow up would be. Since then, my kill9named script[s] and my restartnamed script[s] have failed. Can anyone save me from hours of tracking down whatever I have to to put things right? Everything I get in trouble with this bind stuff it occurs how significant an achievement it is to have a service that automagically maps quad/dotted-decimals to actual words. Sorry if this sounds disjoint; it is past time for a lollipop and a blanket and a *nap* gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org ethic