Bind (named) error

[BulldogXTRM]

Last night I received some error emails from my server saying that bind had failed and it was trying to restart the service. I checked this out and tried to restart but this I get this message each time I try to restart the service.

"named has failed, please contact the sysadmin (result was "named is not running"). "

I need some help fixing this problem, please.

 

[sitekeeper]

Does your /etc/named.conf file exist?

 

[aby]

Last night I received some error emails from my server saying that bind had failed and it was trying to restart the service. I checked this out and tried to restart but this I get this message each time I try to restart the service.

"named has failed, please contact the sysadmin (result was "named is not running"). "

I need some help fixing this problem, please.

Try this command

/usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.conf

Then please verify whether the bind is running
ps ax | grep named

 

[BulldogXTRM]

named.conf didn't exist. I restored it from named.conf.backup and verified all DNS entries were correct. It's working again, thanks.

 

[stphosting]

you save my life

thx very much for the help it works to me i was desesperated but now one of my servers are working fine with you help

regards.

Alex

 

[xidica]

might not be a bad idea to run /scripts/rebuildnamedconf if /etc/named.conf doesn't already exist.
Or if it does, backup /etc/named.conf first, and run the script to rebuild the config to see if that works...