[ILUG] Weird named problem...

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Braun Brelin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to debug a strange named problem.  I've got an old RH 
> 7.x system that's a name server for a large organization.  It's 
> seems to no longer work in any mode other than debug.  I.e. if I 
> run named with the -f -g -d 5 options and scroll error messages to 
> STDERR, I can do name resolutions via nslookup or dig.  If I run 
> named normally, i.e. /sbin/service named start or /etc/init.d/named 
> start, then the nslookup/dig commands time out.
>
> Has anybody run across this sort of problem before?  Any thoughts on how
> to debug this?

version of BIND? Did you upgrade it recently? Did you perhaps upgrade 
from a pre-chroot or pre-'run as unprivileged user' version of BIND 
to one with those features? (if so check permissions)

regards,
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