From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 13:16:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6C71065670 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:16:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@vintners.net) Received: from vinifera.vintners.net (vinifera.vintners.net [207.229.65.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAEF8FC1C for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:16:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@vintners.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (brix.vintners.net [209.162.136.18]) by vinifera.vintners.net (8.14.1/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0FDGJ1c011714 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@vintners.net) Message-ID: <496F372B.2010805@vintners.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:16:27 -0800 From: Mike Lempriere User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <496EB76F.9000501@vintners.net> <496EDA18.5090809@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <496EDA18.5090809@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.6 required=6.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, RGX_BDY_LOCAL_AREA_CODE autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on vinifera.vintners.net Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: named won't start X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:16:03 -0000 Thanks for getting back to me... I guess I was a little panicy when I entered my note, I didn't explain much about what I'd already done. There was no named running, 'ps ax | grep named' showed only my grep and syslog. 'rndc' simply returns a "connection refused" error, I assume this is a poor excuse for an error mesage that really indicates that there is no named running to talk to. I believe the 'in use' message is an artifact of the first failure as there is definately no named running. I've just tried named-checkconf (I didn't know about that one -- thank you!) it says nothing, returns zero. Didn't help -- but thanks for trying! Doug Barton wrote: > Mike Lempriere wrote: > > >> loading configuration: address in use >> > > This error generally means that the old named is still running. Try > 'rndc stop', and then do 'ps -ax | grep named'. If you still see > something running do '/etc/rc.d/named stop' check ps again, then when > you're sure no other named is running do '/etc/rc.d/named start' > > >> I believe I did an accurate merge of my named.conf file. >> > > run named-checkconf to be sure that's not your problem. > > > hope this helps, > > Doug > > -- Mike Lempriere- Home: mike@vintners.net Phone: 206-780-2146 Cellphone: 206-200-5902; text pager: mikelemp@tmail.com