Ubuntu 10.04 Bind9 cannot restart/start

gamerxgirl · 10-03-2010, 11:17 PM

Here's my current setup:

Ubuntu 10.04
Lighttpd
PHP 5.3.2
MySQL 5.1.41
Bind9
Proftpd
Postfix
Dovecot
Froxler (SysCP branch-off)

When I go to run it via this command:
/etc/init.d/bind9 restart

I get the following error message:

Quote:

* Stopping domain name service... bind9 rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
[ OK ]
* Starting domain name service... bind9 [fail]

This is my /etc/bind/named.conf.options file:

Code:

options {
        directory "/var/cache/bind";

        // If there is a firewall between you and n$
        // to talk to, you may need to fix the fire$
        // ports to talk.  See http://www.kb.cert.o$

        // If your ISP provided one or more IP addr$
        // nameservers, you probably want to use th$
        // Uncomment the following block, and inser$
        // the all-0's placeholder.

        // forwarders {
        //      0.0.0.0;
        // };

        auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
        listen-on-v6 { any; };
        allow-transfer {
                208.89.208.232;
                208.89.208.235;
};

I've looked at various solutions already:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/dns-server...in-ubuntu.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1182344
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread189043.html
http://www.virtualmin.com/node/13617
http://www.jasonn.com/content/rndc-c...ection-refused
http://www.hui-wang.info/2009/08/rnd...ction-refused/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

janhe · 10-04-2010, 10:49 AM

The second link suggested you look in /var/log/syslog for more specific error messages. Have you done that? Can you please post the error messages?

captainhardway · 10-05-2010, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gamerxgirl

Here's my current setup:

Ubuntu 10.04
Lighttpd
PHP 5.3.2
MySQL 5.1.41
Bind9
Proftpd
Postfix
Dovecot
Froxler (SysCP branch-off)

When I go to run it via this command:
/etc/init.d/bind9 restart

I get the following error message:

This is my /etc/bind/named.conf.options file:

Code:

options {
        directory "/var/cache/bind";

        // If there is a firewall between you and n$
        // to talk to, you may need to fix the fire$
        // ports to talk.  See http://www.kb.cert.o$

        // If your ISP provided one or more IP addr$
        // nameservers, you probably want to use th$
        // Uncomment the following block, and inser$
        // the all-0's placeholder.

        // forwarders {
        //      0.0.0.0;
        // };

        auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
        listen-on-v6 { any; };
        allow-transfer {
                208.89.208.232;
                208.89.208.235;
};

I've looked at various solutions already:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/dns-server...in-ubuntu.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1182344
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread189043.html
http://www.virtualmin.com/node/13617
http://www.jasonn.com/content/rndc-c...ection-refused
http://www.hui-wang.info/2009/08/rnd...ction-refused/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Greetings.

You are getting the connection-refused error because bind is not running, thus you are left with one problem. Bind is not starting.

In looking at your named.conf.* I only see that you have no forwarders configured, which is really not a problem, and you allow zone transfers to two seperate IPs. Other than that the config posted is not helping determine why bind is not starting.

Is it possible that you need to define some zone files to be loaded in the named.conf.* and/or zone files created?

Also with Ubuntu you can try starting bind9 with sudo service bind9 start/restart for easier finger work.

I hope this was of some help to you.