[K12OSN] Bind/named not working

[Mark Gumprecht]

Thanks Nick,
That fixed that issue, but there are many more. It seems to be that 
permissions have changed everywhere. I'm just going to reload at this 
point. I can sleep tonight, I learned something new today!
Mark

Nick Hadgis wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> I've run into this before on FC5
>
> 1) boot server in single user mode
> - At the grub boot screen, press any key
> - Select the kernel entry from the grub menu and press 'e' to edit 
> this line
> - Select the line starting with "kernel /vmlinuz...." and press 'e' to
> edit this line
> - At the end of this line, add 'single' [then press enter] to boot in
> single user mode
> - On the next screen press 'b' to boot this line
> - your system will boot to a root prompt
> 2) stop named from starting on server boot (chkconfig named off)
> 3) reboot your server (your server will not boot in single user mode)
>
> When the server comes back up, open a root console and see if named
> will start up now (service named start)
>
> If named starts up OK, don't forget to have named start during the
> next reboot (chkconfig named on)
>
> This worked for me, sorry, I don't know the hows/whys.
>
> -Nick
>
> On 7/25/06, Mark Gumprecht <gumprechtm at msad3.org> wrote:
>> I lost power in the middle of finishing up a smb/ldap domain controller.
>> Now when it boots it hangs on the "named" startup. The logs don't
>> indicate anything, but after doing an interactive startup, if I skip
>> named,nfs,smb, it will come up. If I try to start/restart/status of
>> named, I get "connection refused: rndc failed to connect". So from here
>> I know bind is not working. I googled, but can't seem to find a
>> definitive answer. I tried to reinstall bind, but that didn't work. I
>> could just blow the server and reload it, Certainly would take less time
>> than I have in it right now, But, being still new to linux and never
>> having had a software failure in linux before, seems like a prime
>> opportunity for some OJT.
>> Any help Appreciated.
>> Mark
>>
>> -- 
>> Mark Gumprecht
>> MSAD3
>> Unity, Maine 04988
>> gumprechtm at msad3.org
>>
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Mark Gumprecht
MSAD3
Unity, Maine 04988
gumprechtm at msad3.org