ndc still not fixed

[AlaskanWolf]

i am still getting this error with ndc, if its not this error, its the &connection refused&

I sent a email to nick on this but he never responded, anyone know of a fix for this? i have tired pretty much all the scripts in /scripts area

ndc reload
ndc: decode base64 secret: bad base64 encoding

[ParadiseDesigns]

Hello,
Try to run /scripts/fixndc if that doesn't work run /scripts/updatenow then run /scripts/fixndc that should fix it.

[AlaskanWolf]

that did not work

[Annette]

It almost seems like MIME::Base64 might have some issues. Have you tried reinstalling that perl mod? Just a wild tangent.

[AlaskanWolf]

doing that i just got all boat load of errors

[feanor]

/scripts/fixheaders


than install that module by hand
(via cpan is probably quickest)

[AlaskanWolf]

/scripts/fixheaders just returns back to prompt and doesnt do anything

nor can i install mime by hand (same errors)

[AlaskanWolf]

manually installed http://updates.cpanel.net/pub/rpmup/redhat/7.1/x86/updates/glibc-devel-2.2.4-24.i386.rpm and that fixed the errors i was getting, now to see if that fixed the ndc reload problem (just installed that perl module)


Update; Nope, that didnt fix it

root@greyfox [/]# ndc reload
ndc: connect failed: connection refused

[Annette]

Is this a machine slaved to a master nameserver box? If so, are you having trouble loading any sites on the slave (i.e., does their name resolution fail)? If so, I wouldn't worry about it. We get the connection refused messages quite a bit on the slaved machines, but it doesn't stop anything from working. The zones are still added to the master server, and everything works fine.

If this is a master server, is bind continually running through updates of existing zones? Are there any errors related to bind stopping/starting on the box?

[AlaskanWolf]

this is a sole machine and the problem is bind is not updating zones, therefore alot of customers complaining of new accts not working, subdomains not working etc.

Nicks been unresponsive since i asked him a few weeks ago about the problem, i fixed 3 other servers with fixndc but this machine is the only one left

[Annette]

Ah, that stinks (the nonupdating). Any errors in /var/log/messages when you try to restart bind? Syntax errors, etc., in the named.conf perhaps? Anything?

[AlaskanWolf]

nothing, everythings clean in the error logs and messages, nadda out of the ordinary

[Annette]

More obvious stuff (sorry).

Perms on /var/named are at least 755 and user/group is named?
Perms on /etc/named.conf are at least 644 and user/group is root?
Are zones entries actually being added to /etc/named.conf or /var/named at all? Are they in the right format?
Both nameservers IPs for the server are listed in the show IP listing and both nameservers have valid zone files?
Run the named cleanup from WHM?
Is there an ndc in /var/run? Did you zap that and restart bind again (for & 9.x)?

More info-type stuff:
Server os? Bind version? WHM version?

[AlaskanWolf]

to answer your questions

i went in and rechown'd and chmoded the files you stated, no change

yes, zones are added OK and in correct format

Both IPs are listed in show IP listing and have vaild zones

ran the cleanup Cleaned up 170 zone(s) - no change

there is no ndc in /var/run

Server os: Linux 7.2
Bind: 9.2.0
WHM: 4.8.0
Cpanel 4.8.0-42

[AlaskanWolf]

FINALLY!

Thank you nick for your help today via email, he pointed out that the /etc/hosts file was not pointing to 127.0.0.1 rather the real ip of the server

For anyone that ever has such a problem in the future and are head banged, now you know what to look for!

and thanks Annette for the help