Am Fr, den 13.02.2004 schrieb Horatius Farcas um 11:30: > > Hi. Please help me to make the named daemon on Fedora Core 1 (bind > 9.2.2-P3) answering to domain requests. > > > > What I discovered up to now: > > 1. After installing Fedora Core 1 and setting named to start > automatically it start, but doesn't reply to any domain request . I did > this on 2 separate machines, both brand new: same situation. > 2. I checked the named.conf file with named-checkconf and > everything is OK. > 3. /var/log/messages report that the named starts succesfully EVEN > on the interfaces rejected by me in named.conf!! > 4. If I start manually the daemon with -d 5 and -g options I > discovered the first eror: Feb 13 11:01:58.656 couldn't open pid file > '/var/run/named/named.pid': Permission denied > 5. I fixed that manually chmod 777 /var/run/named > 6. After that, named -g start corectly the DNS server and answer to > all domain requests...That's OK! BUT AFTER A RESTART CRASH AGAIN. > > > > Bottom line: I can make named to answer to domain requests only if is > started with -f or -g option... ie DO NOT DAEMONIZE! On auto start or > service named restart, it starts, but simply refuse to answer to all > domain requests. On tcpdump I see the packets coming, and after a large > period of time the server respond with SERVFAIL ... > > What is wrong? > > > > PS: iptables is DOWN! > > > > Thank U. > > Horatius Farcas Hm, I can not acknowledge your indication in any way. Bind on FC1 runs absolutely flawless. I run it even in chrooted mode. /var/run/named is chmod 770 and chown named:named. Could it be that your /etc/hosts file is damaged and does not contain a absolutely necessary line: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl Sirendipity 15:07:07 up 4 days, 17:49, load average: 0.15, 0.11, 0.04 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]