named failing and restarting every 15 mins ?

[fuzioneer]

Everything all ok on this server running the following setup/config:

WHM 11.2.0 cPanel 11.8.0-C15601
CENTOS Enterprise 4.5 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0


then suddenly last night i started getting named failing every 15mins sending out the auto email such as:

named failed @ Thu Jul 26 09:30:58 2007. A restart was attempted automagicly.

nothing in messages for it

tried restarting named manually and no problems encountered

tried running the cpanel named fix scripts to no avail

Just can't see any issues, the server isnt being pushed at all, idling basically

any ideas ?

[Bdzzld]

We've received the same with one of our servers. It seems an upcp upgrade of bind (named) completely messed up the rndc.key file. Luckily the server is part of a cluster or else...

[fuzioneer]

any ideas on fixing it ?

[Bdzzld]

Hi,

Execute the following :

rpm -e bind-chroot

and

/scripts/fixrndc

Regards.

[fuzioneer]

when i try to do the rpm -e bind-chroot command i get the error

error: package bind-chroot is not installed

??

[Bdzzld]

Have you entered the second command afterwards?

[fuzioneer]

y hasnt made a difference at all

[Bdzzld]

Have you tried to restart named/bind from WHM?
This usually responds with a complete error... Can you paste that error here?

[fuzioneer]

tried that and dont get any errors and starts succesfully

It just restarts for some reason every 15mins approx.

Are there any logs other than /var/log/messages or checksrvd etc that i can look at ?

[mtindor]

You might want to restart chksrvd and then see if it continues to do that every 15 minutes. If named starts and generates no errors but restarts every 15 minutes, it'd probably because chkservd doesn't see it running.

service chkservd restart

Mike

[utropic]

We have this error too. It seems fixndc blew-away the named.conf file. Does anyone have a process for fixing the root-cause and then repopulating the info from the cluster?



Thanks.

[fuzioneer]

well restarting chkservd had no effect

my named.conf is present and seems ok, although strange entry as follows:

zone "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "/var/named/named.ip6.local";
allow-update { none; };
};


is that supposed to be there ?

[WebHostDog]

Hello,
Just:

chown named:named /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key

and:

service named restart

[foxpiles]

same problem here.

tried all of the above but whm still show named status as failed.

i've tried '/etc/init.d/named status' it said server is up and running. only thing in log message about named is that it restart itself every 15 minute or so.

please help, any solution?