Re: Bind won't start

Jun 18 09:23:28 madrhl01 named: named startup succeeded
Jun 18 09:23:28 madrhl01 named[505]: starting BIND 9.1.0 -u named
Jun 18 09:23:28 madrhl01 named[505]: using 1 CPU
Jun 18 09:23:28 madrhl01 named[509]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Jun 18 09:23:28 madrhl01 named[509]: zone configuration for 'domain.com' failed: already exists
Jun 18 09:23:28 madrhl01 named[509]: loading configuration: failure
Jun 18 09:23:28 madrhl01 named[509]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Jun 18 09:23:31 madrhl01 named: named shutdown failed
Jun 18 09:24:04 madrhl01 last message repeated 2 times
Jun 18 09:24:11 madrhl01 named: named startup succeeded
Jun 18 09:24:11 madrhl01 named[564]: starting BIND 9.1.0 -u named
Jun 18 09:24:11 madrhl01 named[564]: using 1 CPU
Jun 18 09:24:11 madrhl01 named[568]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Jun 18 09:24:11 madrhl01 named[568]: zone configuration for 'domain.com' failed: already exists
Jun 18 09:24:11 madrhl01 named[568]: loading configuration: failure
Jun 18 09:24:11 madrhl01 named[568]: exiting (due to fatal error)

I guess I had a forward lookup zone entered in the named.conf file twice. Thanks for the help! I didn't know where to look.

----- Original Message -----

From: Alex Puye

To: redhat-install-list redhat com

Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 10:54 AM

Subject: RE: Bind won't start

What do the log files say?

Any error messages in /var/log/messages?

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com [mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of boot2001
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:16 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Bind won't start

Here's an interesting one:

I set up a name server (7.1) a little over a week ago and everything was working great and I haven't touched it only to set up a samba share and make a couple of DNS additions. I came in today with 852 messages in my inbox (thanks to MRTG) and absolutley no DNS on the machine.

I checked to see if named was running (ps -ef |grep named), and nothing. I started named (/etc/rc.d/init.d/named start) and it said ok. I checked to see if it was running and it was not.

I checked the service activity in linuxconf - it says that bind was running - it's set up for runlevels 3,4,5. I was unable to stop it via linuxconf either. I looked at /etc/named.conf and that looks fine as well. I checked out the zone files for our primary domains as well and those look fine.

At this point I am stuck and any help would be appreciated.

Thanks