Help a newbie? - BIND Problem

[griz]

similar problem:

http://support.cpanel.net/obb/read.php?TID=1715

My Problem:

- BIND does not appear to be running. I have changed the nameserver in the resolv.conf file to 127.0.0.1, and I can now use cpanel by using an external nameserver, but I will need this server to have it's own nameserver running. I get a message that NDC will not connect, and ndc reload does not work. when I run ndc reload I get the following:

root@a1 [/home]# ndc reload
ndc: connect: connection refused
root@a1 [/home]#

When I run an nslookup, I get the following:

root@a1 [/home]# nslookup hiexpress-fortuna.com
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup
with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

- For the life of me, I can't figure out how to set up my main ip account, which should be lin2.a1webserver.com

- ipusage is not working either. The &SHOW IP ADRESS USAGE& tool in WHM gives the following
output:

--Invalid argument at /scripts/ipusage line 33.--

- PROFTPD is hung. I find the following entry in /var/log/messages:

Mar 11 01:16:03 a1 proftpd: a1.fds.lightone.net - Fatal: unable to determine IP address of `a1.fds.lightone.net'.

and when I attempt to reload proftpd I get the following message:

root@a1 [/var/log]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd restart
Hangup


Possibly but doubtfully related problem?: While setting up new accounts, the domain name 'hudson-les.com' was mistakenly entered as '89 hudson-les.com'. This pulled down apache until I edited httpd.conf and found the error. note - there is no entry for this domain in /etc/proftpd.conf because it is name-based.

Can anyone help with this? Thanks in advance!

Griz

 

[zex]

First ensure that dns is running.
Try ndc restart if you have bind 8 (redhat 6.x)
For red hat 7.x /etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart
If your named server does not start go to /var/log/messages
and check errors from bind.
Then fix errors

 

[griz]

re:

Thanks for the reply.

my /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory doesn't have named. when doing a locate command, I found 'named' files at the following locations:

/usr/sbin/named

when I run /usr/sbin/named stop I get the following output:

root@a1 # /usr/sbin/named stop
usage: named [-c conffile] [-d debuglevel] [-f|-g] [-n number_of_cpus]
[-p port] [-s] [-t chrootdir] [-u username]
named: extra command line arguments

 

[zex]

This down is /etc/rc.d/init..d/named file
put all this in that file.
And use it for starting and restarting named...
something like /etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart
Dont forgot to put chmod 755 on /etc/rc.d/init.d/named
Actualy the best solution is to reinstall bind, but you can use also this.

You can also use ps -aux|grep bind to track PID
and then kill -HUP PID to reload it.
Then check /var/log/messages

If you have still problems conntact me on e-mail.

#!/bin/bash
#
# named This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# named (BIND DNS server).
#
# chkconfig: - 55 45
# description: named (BIND) is a Domain Name Server (DNS) \
# that is used to resolve host names to IP addresses.
# probe: true

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up.
[ &${NETWORKING}& = &no& ] && exit 0

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/named ] && . /etc/sysconfig/named

[ -f /usr/sbin/named ] || exit 0

[ -f /etc/named.conf ] || exit 0

RETVAL=0
prog=&named&

start() {
# Start daemons.
if [ -n &`/sbin/pidof named`& ]; then
echo -n $&$prog: already running&
return 1
fi
echo -n $&Starting $prog: &
if [ -n &${ROOTDIR}& -a &x${ROOTDIR}& != &x/& ]; then
OPTIONS=&${OPTIONS} -t ${ROOTDIR}&
fi
# Since named doesn't return proper exit codes at the moment
# (won't be fixed before 9.2), we can't use daemon here - emulate
# its functionality
base=$prog
named -u named ${OPTIONS}
RETVAL=$?
usleep 100000
if [ -z &`/sbin/pidof named`& ]; then
# The child processes have died after fork()ing, e.g.
# because of a broken config file
RETVAL=1
fi
[ $RETVAL -ne 0 ] && failure $&$base startup&
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/named && success $&$base startup&
echo
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
# Stop daemons.
echo -n $&Stopping $prog: &
killproc named
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/named
echo
return $RETVAL
}
rhstatus() {
# FIXME: use this once it's implemented
# /usr/sbin/rndc status
# return $?
PIDS=`/sbin/pidof named`
if [ -z &$PIDS& ]; then
echo $&$prog not running.&
return 1
else
echo $&$prog is running, PIDs: $PIDS.&
return 0
fi
}
restart() {
stop
start
}
reload() {
/usr/sbin/rndc reload &/dev/null 2&&1 || /usr/bin/killall -HUP named
return $?
}
probe() {
# named knows how to reload intelligently; we don't want linuxconf
# to offer to restart every time
/usr/sbin/rndc reload &/dev/null 2&&1 || echo start
return $?
}

# See how we were called.
case &$1& in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
rhstatus
;;
restart)
restart
;;
condrestart)
[ -f /var/lock/subsys/named ] && restart
;;
reload)
reload
;;
probe)
probe
;;
*)
echo $&Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|reload|probe}&
exit 1
esac

exit $?

 

[albertg]

I have no prob restarting named but i think something is wrong..../etc/hosts and resolv.conf is setup correctly i believe.

Is there any other place i should check?

Thanks in advance.