Hi,

I recently installed BIND9 on Red Hat AS 2.1, using the following three rpms,

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bind-devel-9.1.3-2.dag.rh62
bind-9.1.3-2.dag.rh62[/HTML]

The bind files etc have all been installed, I defined one test domain, i followed a howto but once completed when i attempt to start bind, it says it has started but the logs do not show anything and a telnet to localhost 53 responds with connection refused, when i check the status of bind it shows it as not running. it seems it runs the start but then nothing happens!

My named.conf looks like below

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options {
directory "/opt/named";
pid-file "named.pid";
notify yes;

};

logging {
category security { default_syslog; };
category lame-servers { null; };
category queries { null; };

};

# Use with the following in named.conf, adjusting the allow list as needed:
key "rndc-key" {
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret "tauMMYUPBaTNPtYKBXAGZAdtrGVimNkmqWDgGaoj";
};

controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "rndc-key"; };

};

zone "." {
type hint;
file "root.hint";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "localhost.rev";
notify no;
};

zone "test.com" {
type master;
file "test.com";
};

zone "192.200.10.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "192.200.10.in-addr.arpa.dns";
};

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Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
w

Okie,

I think the fixed the above the files were all owned by root, once i changed the ownership to named it started up, however I still do not see anything in the logs, also when trying to dig/nslookup the test domain i get a SERVFAIL

any ideas?!

Thanks
W

Check /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages very carefully. Sometimes the bind error messages are not very clearly marked as errors.

For one thing, I believe '#' is an illegal character in bind config files. You should use '//' in named and ';' in the .db and .rev files.

Also, in the process of installing and debugging I would start with the simplest, default and proven config files which give you the best chance for getting a running system. Start working from there.

jlinkels