I have a set of 3 Linux boxes, LaptopFC6, DesktopFC5, and DesktopFC6.
On the two FC6 machines named is no longer a services ( I'm not sure who
took it's place, since I'm a networking neophyte) but everything seems
to be working to allow me access to the net via my DSL modem/router and
to each of the machines from each other....
. . . except (you knew there had to be an exceptions, else why would I
bother with this)
DesktopFC5 (didius) periodically looses contact with the (net)world. It
can't be pinged, I can ssh to it, and I can't get to an external site,
at least by name. When I discovered this I fell back on my Unix
experience and restarted and named and, voila!, everything was back in
order.
I have NetworkManager running on all three machines.
I keep all three of them as close to current in updates as I can.
Can anyone tell me why named periodically goes into limbo? or tell me
how I can start to investigate this?
/var/log/messages
seems to show the following when I can no longer use the name of the
site/machine
Jan 16 23:01:03 didius NetworkManager: <WARNING>
add_ip4_config_to_named (): Could not set forwarders for zone '.'.
Error: 'No reply within specified time'.
When I restart named I get the following in /var/log/messages
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: shutting down: flushing changes
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: stopping command channel on
127.0.0.1#953
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: no longer listening on 192.168.1.45#53
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: exiting
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: starting BIND 9.3.3rc2 -u named -D
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: loading configuration from
'/etc/named.conf'Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: listening on IPv4
interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: listening
on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.1.45#53
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: command channel listening on
127.0.0.1#953
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded
serial 1997022700
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone 255.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded
serial 42
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone
0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN:
loaded serial 1997022700
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone localdomain/IN: loaded serial 42
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: D-BUS dhcdbd subscription enabled.
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: D-BUS service enabled.
Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: running
Sometimes I can go for several hours with out a problem. Other times it
is a matter of minutes.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
~~R
