DNS Server Syntax Error

[flashweb]

Hi,

In my new Cpanel server (FreeBSD 5.4) i get error on starting BIND.

named has failed, please contact the sysadmin (result was "named is not running").
Sep 16 13:32:45 server20 named[5792]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -c /etc/namedb/named.conf -t /var/named
Sep 16 13:32:45 server20 named[5792]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:2: syntax error near '{'
Sep 16 13:32:45 server20 named[5792]: loading configuration: unexpected token
Sep 16 13:32:45 server20 named[5792]: exiting (due to fatal error)

This is new server, no domains hosted, but named seems down.

content of named are

include "/etc/namedb/rndc.key";
{
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret "/f19YLO40Zgd8Yui5Jxspw==";
};


controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { "rndc-key"; };
};

/scripts/fixrndc gives

!! fixrndc requires a syntactically correct /etc/namedb/named.conf.
!! No changes were made to /etc/namedb/named.conf. Problem was:
!! /etc/namedb/named.conf:2: syntax error near '{'

How do i correct this ?

Regards,

Annie Steephan

[jesse]

Same problem here.

[jrehmer]

Lines cannot begin with {

Here is an example of how mine looks:

//
// named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver
//
 key "rndc-key" {
       algorithm hmac-md5;
       secret "25AtCNQJNCih14txC/77cQ==";
};

controls {
       inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
               allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "rndc-key"; };
};

options {
        directory "/var/named";
        dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
        statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
        /*
         * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
         * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
         * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
         * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
         * port by default.
         */
         query-source address * port 53;
};

[jrehmer]

Hi,

In my new Cpanel server (FreeBSD 5.4) i get error on starting BIND.



This is new server, no domains hosted, but named seems down.

content of named are



/scripts/fixrndc gives




How do i correct this ?

Regards,

Annie Steephan

Also, it appears you are trying to include the server key file, but then specifying it on the next line...which won't work, again refer to my example above.