named failed to start since an IP failure and re-route by DC

Ixel

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[SOLVED] named failed to start since an IP failure and re-route by DC

[SOLVED]

Hi all,
I am having a rather unusual problem, google and the forums don't appear to help or know about this one either, but anyway.

Named won't start, just fails, I can't really locate any error code or message in /var/log/messages or elsewhere.

I've tried:
upcp --force
/scripts/fixnamed
/scripts/fixeverything
/scripts/fixndc
/scripts/fixrndc
/scripts/fixbuggynamed

To no avail can I either restart in SSH or restart in WHM. All other services and processes are running fine. I have also tried rebooting the machine gracefully along with cleaning up the zones in WHM (an option to do so).

Named (tail /var/log/messages):
Code:
Jun 19 11:38:46 alpha named: zone somethingbig.no-signal.co.uk/IN: loaded serial 2006061301
Jun 19 11:38:46 alpha named: zone suroot.dedicatednet.co.uk/IN: loaded serial 2006061401
Jun 19 11:38:46 alpha named: zone hekelaanvakantieparken.nl/IN: loaded serial 2006061401
Jun 19 11:38:46 alpha named: zone webmassmedia.com/IN: loaded serial 2006061501
Jun 19 11:38:46 alpha named: zone dummyrun.mxehosting.com/IN: loaded serial 2006061501
Jun 19 11:38:46 alpha named: zone admin.mxehosting.com/IN: loaded serial 2006061501
Jun 19 11:38:47 alpha named: zone mediarevolution4u.com/IN: loaded serial 2006061501
Jun 19 11:38:48 alpha named: zone sulake.com/IN: loaded serial 2006061601
Jun 19 11:38:48 alpha named: zone evaluation.dedicatednet.co.uk/IN: loaded serial 2006061601
Jun 19 11:38:48 alpha named: zone va-clan.co.uk/IN: loaded serial 2006061703
Named (startup in WHM):
Code:
Attempting to restart named  	
Waiting for named to restart.... . . . . . . . . . . finished.

named status

named has failed, please contact the sysadmin (result was "named is not running"). Jun 19 11:43:15 alpha named: zone localdomain/IN: loaded serial 42 Jun 19 11:43:15 alpha named: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42 Jun 19 11:43:15 alpha named: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700 Jun 19 11:43:15 alpha named: 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: loaded serial 1997022700 Jun 19 11:43:15 alpha named: zone 255.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42 Jun 19 11:43:15 alpha named: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42 Jun 19 11:43:15 alpha named: zone demo.dedicatednet.co.uk/IN: loaded serial 2006010801 Jun 19 11:43:15 alpha named: zone ns2.dedicatednet.co.uk/IN: loaded serial 2006010801 Jun 19 11:43:15 alpha named: zone ns1.dedicatednet.co.uk/IN: loaded serial 2006010801 .....
Any ideas? I'm stumped myself, there's no true error message :(.

Ixel.
 
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Ixel

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bijo said:
Hi,

What is your os?, Is it freebsd?. And also I test some domains from that list, and i got the domains with out any error.
Don't worry now, it's been solved by the datacenter in the end, named had to be completely reinstalled from scratch. Thanks for your help anyway.

Ixel.