questions on bind9-3.6-P1

[Jarrod Slick]

On 1/24/11 12:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	oKay, since my prev question caught no wixards, how about looking at
> 	the errors from bind-9.3.6? [I rebuilt this from the src tarball; it
> 	finally installed; I fixed some obvious errors, but several remain.
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> 	Here is the log file where bind9 fails on "em0", my NIC in my server.
> 	This is one failure that is simply over my head.
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> +++
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> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1 -c /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: could not listen on UDP socket: address in use
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: creating IPv4 interface em0 failed; interface ignored
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: could not listen on UDP socket: address in use
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: creating IPv4 interface lo0 failed; interface ignored
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: not listening on any interfaces
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953: address in use
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: couldn't add command channel ::1#953: address in use
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: could not listen on UDP socket: address in use
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: creating IPv4 interface em0 failed; interface ignored
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: could not listen on UDP socket: address in use
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: creating IPv4 interface lo0 failed; interface ignored
> Jan 24 11:14:55 ethic named[59747]: running
> +++
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> 	Can anybody explain why (eg) the lo0 failed or was ignored.  And
> 	why bind9--now offically at its EOLife--has trouble creating an
> 	IPv4 interface with my NIC, em0?  Do I have to do some very simple?
> 	like rebooting?
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I think the issue probably lies in the "address in use" part of your 
error output.  Try a sockstat/netstat to see what's bound on port 953.  
If it's an old instance of bind, kill it and then try restarting.