DNS and file system messed up...

[Dan Busarow]

On Jul 8, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On 08/07/2011 08:25, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> On 7 July 2011, at 22:58, Gary Kline wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Jul  7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: none:0: open: /etc/ 
>>>>>> named.conf: file not found
>>>>>> Jul  7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1 -c / 
>>>>>> var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf
>
>> The first one that fails is looking for /etc/named.conf.  The second
>> one shows its in /var/named/etc/named/named.conf
>
>> Those are different locations.  I suspect you have named_flags setup
>> in rc.conf pointing to /etc/namedb/named.conf rather than the right
>> location.  Its also possible that its not set in rc.conf but defaults
>> in either the rc script or /etc/rc.d/named.  On my system it appears
>> to default in /etc/rc.d/named.
>
> FreeBSD defaults to running named chrooted.  /etc/namedb is actually a
> symbolic link:
>
> % ls -la /etc/namedb
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21 Jul  6 06:24 /etc/namedb@ ->
> /var/named/etc/namedb
>
> so the files referenced are in fact exactly the same file.

Actually

/etc/named.conf

is NOT the same as

/etc/namedb/named.conf ergo it is not the same as /var/named/etc/ 
namedb/named.conf

Gary, add

named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"

to /etc/rc.conf.  Or change /etc/namedb/named.conf to the /var  
version if you like/there is no symlink.

Dan



>   However, the
> flags from the log extract don't look like the defaults to me.  (I'm
> running the dns/bind98 port, and the equivalent info from the log line
> is '-t /var/named -u bind')
>
> Gary, what named related settings do you have in /etc/rc.conf?  You
> almost certainly don't need anything more than:
>
> named_enable="YES"
>
> and perhaps
>
> syslogd_flags="-ss -l /var/named/var/run/log"
>
> so named can log to the system syslog.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
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