Re: Dynamic DNS and failed journal

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On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 17:37 +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On FC5 I have dhcpd running and attemtping to update the DNS server from 
> DHCP.
> 
> a log output from bind is as follows:
> 
> 31-Jul-2006 17:27:55.658 general: notice: running
> 31-Jul-2006 17:28:08.013 update: info: client 192.168.10.254#32826: 
> updating zone 'bac.org.au/IN': adding an RR at 'box.bac.org.au' A
> 31-Jul-2006 17:28:08.014 update: info: client 192.168.10.254#32826: 
> updating zone 'bac.org.au/IN': adding an RR at 'box.bac.org.au' TXT
> 31-Jul-2006 17:28:08.015 general: info: journal file 
> /var/named/bac.org.au.hosts.jnl does not exist, creating it
> 31-Jul-2006 17:28:08.016 general: error: 
> /var/named/bac.org.au.hosts.jnl: create: permission denied
> 31-Jul-2006 17:28:08.016 update: info: client 192.168.10.254#32826: 
> updating zone 'bac.org.au/IN': error: journal open failed: unexpected error
> 
> I am sure my dhcpd and named config files are ok, as far as allowing 
> dynamic updates are concerned anyway ... but there seems to be a 
> permission problem in trying to create bind's zone journal.
> 
> I have fiddled with permissions, even going so far as to use 777 !! ... 
> but the error persists. The update apparantly fails because this journal 
> can not be created and/or written. This is a stock standard FC5 
> installation.
> 
> I suspect this is something to do with the chrooted environment in which 
> bind is running ....
> 
> Any ideas people?

/var/named isn't normally writable by the named process.

Try configuring your DNS server to maintain the DDNS zone file in
the /var/named/slaves directory instead, which is writable by named.

Paul.


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