[ILUG] Weird named problem...

[Braun Brelin]

Version of Bind is 9.2.1.  It hasn't been upgraded at all.  The only thing
that I can find different is that the /var fs filled up and caused a
number of problems with logs, etc.  I checked to see if any of the zone
files were corrupted but it doesn't appear so.  I also tried running named
-u root just to see if it was a permission thing, but it still doesn't
work outside of debug mode.

Braun Brelin


> 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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