ndc: connect: connection refused

[totalufo]

I get this error message when trying to upadate a DNS zone. Any ideas?

[Kiwi]

RUn the following commands:

ndc reload
tail /var/log/messages

This should tell you where the error is

[fh]

Check teh rndckeys are the same in named.conf and rndc.conf. Then ./ndc stop ./ndc start

[fh]

Check the rndckeys are the same in named.conf and rndc.conf. Then ./ndc stop ./ndc start

[hedgehog]

Just run

/scripts/fixndc

That should get your problem solved fast and easy in most cases.

Hedgy

[tadruj]

The thinginnabob is that You have bind 9.x but WHM wants 8.x, so You have to prevent /scripts/rpmup to update to hte new bind and You have to downgrade bind to 8.x

That\'s what I\'ve done, I\'m not the WHM expert so... :P

[totalufo]

Here is what I get in the var/log/mesages

Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named[13431]: starting BIND 9.1.0 -u named
Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named[13431]: using 2 CPUs
Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named[13433]: loading configuration from \'/etc/named.conf\'
Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named[13433]: /etc/named.conf:54: parse error near \'ns1.maxxxhosting.com\'
Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named[13433]: loading configuration: failure
Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named[13433]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named: named startup succeeded

I have 2 servers and I\'m trying to use my main server\'s DNS if that helps in troubleshooting this.

[AlaskanWolf]

anyone else got a fix on this? i ran both scripts in /scripts and neither work.....

[AmityHosting]

mine is becuase of this according to the tail /var/log/messages

Feb 8 10:35:04 localhost proftpd[14953]: localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]) - FTP login timed out, disconnected.

The script to fix it did not work, said it was already fixed, would like any ideas on this also

[feanor]

As mentioned- it's true that in most of these new machines WHManager is still looking for bind 9+.....
A downgrade to bind 8.2.3 and then a lock on the named binary will keep things stable and working with cpanel/whm until everything is in sync with bind 9.1.0, or whatever the current cpanel-installed version is.

/scripts/fixndc and those peeps work sometimes, don't get me wrong, but I don't have a rhyme or reason or technical pattern to follow yet. When it doubt downgrade for the time being, to get things working.

[bdraco]

Open your named.conf and fix the error on line 54

Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named[13433]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named[13433]: /etc/named.conf:54: parse error near 'ns1.maxxxhosting.com'
Feb 5 23:32:12 localhost named[13433]: loading configuration: failure


named-checkconf is your friend

[AmityHosting]

root@localhost [/usr/sbin]# ./named-checkconf
the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
root@localhost [/usr/sbin]#

but

root@localhost [/usr/sbin]# ./ndc start
ndc: connect: connection refused
root@localhost [/usr/sbin]#

still no luck for me :/

[bdraco]

[quote:8e9280a85b][i:8e9280a85b]Originally posted by AmityHosting[/i:8e9280a85b]

root@localhost [/usr/sbin]# ./named-checkconf
the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
root@localhost [/usr/sbin]#

but

root@localhost [/usr/sbin]# ./ndc start
ndc: connect: connection refused
root@localhost [/usr/sbin]#

still no luck for me :/[/quote:8e9280a85b]

Restart named in WHM

[AmityHosting]

Attempting to restart bind
rndc: connect: connection refused

bind status
bind did not return a status report


bind started ok


That connection refused thing comes up again :/

[awsol]

Make sure the keys are right in both named files. I had a problem with this a few times on my server.