RNDC Issues

[edesignway]

I an a newbie at all this named, rndc, and all that, so please go easy on me.

I am tring to use rndc, however, I guess its not installed... when entering the commands at the command prompt, it says its not there. How do I get this installed or what might I be doing wrong?

 

[bdraco]

[quote:d598dcec54][i:d598dcec54]Originally posted by edesignway[/i:d598dcec54]

I an a newbie at all this named, rndc, and all that, so please go easy on me.

I am tring to use rndc, however, I guess its not installed... when entering the commands at the command prompt, it says its not there. How do I get this installed or what might I be doing wrong?[/quote:d598dcec54]


Try

su -

 

[edesignway]

Thanks! that is what I needed to do! now hopefully my next few steps go off without a hitch!

 

[edesignway]

Would anyone be insterested in give me a little step by step help on setting this up? I am a little lost here, and I am sure it is something very simple!

 

[edesignway]

I get this when starting named, any ideas?

Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7885]: starting BIND 9.1.0 -u named
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7885]: using 1 CPU
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named: named startup succeeded
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: master.c:250: unexpected error:
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: isc_lex_gettoken() failed: unexpected end of input
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: zone configuration for '.' failed: unexpected error
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: loading configuration: failure
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: exiting (due to fatal error)

 

[bdraco]

[quote:53397cdd69][i:53397cdd69]Originally posted by edesignway[/i:53397cdd69]

I get this when starting named, any ideas?

Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7885]: starting BIND 9.1.0 -u named
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7885]: using 1 CPU
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named: named startup succeeded
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: master.c:250: unexpected error:
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: isc_lex_gettoken() failed: unexpected end of input
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: zone configuration for '.' failed: unexpected error
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: loading configuration: failure
Feb 18 02:06:27 edesignway named[7887]: exiting (due to fatal error)[/quote:53397cdd69]

From that error it appears you have an error in your root hint zone ...

 

[edesignway]

Ok, I have fixed my root zone file. Now I am receiving this error message.

Feb 18 15:13:42 edesignway named[22623]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied

However that file isnt there... Is there a sample file out somewhere that I can use to create my own?

 

[awsol]

PID files are just the proccess ID . Most programs will create one when you run them. Only thing I can think of doing is this

pico named.pid

Then save it and try running it. Maybe bind doesn't create one. So make a plain file and see if that works.

 

[awsol]

Ok I just checked my server and the named.pid file is actually in

[/var/run/named]

You may want to check over your settings.

 

[edesignway]

Well, what is supposed to be in the named.pid file? Can I get a sample named.pid from somewhere and just make my own that way?

 

[moronhead]

[quote:3ccb929354][i:3ccb929354]Originally posted by edesignway[/i:3ccb929354]

Well, what is supposed to be in the named.pid file? Can I get a sample named.pid from somewhere and just make my own that way?[/quote:3ccb929354]

try:

touch /var/run/named.pid

chown named.named /var/run/named.pid

/scripts/restartsrv bind

(in this order)

Did bind start?

 

[edesignway]

This is what is returned.

Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31944]: starting BIND 9.1.0 -u named
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31944]: using 1 CPU
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named: named startup succeeded
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: zone '0.0.127.in-addr.arpa': 'check-names' is not implemented
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: zone 'localhost': 'check-names' is not implemented
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: set maximum open files to -1: permission denied
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: no IPv6 interfaces found
--
It lists all of my IPS
--
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: exiting (due to early fatal error)

 

[moronhead]

[quote:86f1dc8cfd][i:86f1dc8cfd]Originally posted by edesignway[/i:86f1dc8cfd]

This is what is returned.

Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31944]: starting BIND 9.1.0 -u named
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31944]: using 1 CPU
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named: named startup succeeded
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: zone '0.0.127.in-addr.arpa': 'check-names' is not implemented
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: zone 'localhost': 'check-names' is not implemented
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: set maximum open files to -1: permission denied
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: no IPv6 interfaces found
--
It lists all of my IPS
--
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied
Feb 19 01:31:33 edesignway named[31946]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
[/quote:86f1dc8cfd]

Could you run a search in your /etc/named.conf to see if you have these somewhere in it:

files unlimited

check-names

named.pid

directory

If you do have any of these, can you copy and paste the relevant lines or sections on here (you could mask the actual domain names).

 

[edesignway]

This is what I have...

options {
directory &/var/named&;
pid-file &/var/run/named.pid&;
files unlimited;
recursion yes;
forward first;

forwarders


zone &0.0.127.in-addr.arpa&
{
type master;
file &127.0.0.zone&;
check-names fail;
allow-update { none; };
};

zone &localhost&
{
type master;
file &localhost.zone&;
check-names fail;
allow-update { none; };

 

[bdraco]

[quote:9411935d67][i:9411935d67]Originally posted by edesignway[/i:9411935d67]

This is what I have...

options {
directory &/var/named&;
pid-file &/var/run/named.pid&;
files unlimited;
recursion yes;
forward first;

forwarders


zone &0.0.127.in-addr.arpa&
{
type master;
file &127.0.0.zone&;
check-names fail;
allow-update { none; };
};

zone &localhost&
{
type master;
file &localhost.zone&;
check-names fail;
allow-update { none; };[/quote:9411935d67]

Email me your server's ip and root password and I'll fix it for you

[email protected]

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[moronhead]

[quote:ff1e19ccfb][i:ff1e19ccfb]Originally posted by edesignway[/i:ff1e19ccfb]

This is what I have...

options {
directory &/var/named&;
pid-file &/var/run/named.pid&;
files unlimited;
recursion yes;
forward first;

forwarders


zone &0.0.127.in-addr.arpa&
{
type master;
file &127.0.0.zone&;
check-names fail;
allow-update { none; };
};

zone &localhost&
{
type master;
file &localhost.zone&;
check-names fail;
allow-update { none; };[/quote:ff1e19ccfb]

Best is to let Nick handle it for you as you may have other problems with your named.conf and bind.

I was going to suggest these remedies:

Delete these 3 lines in named.conf:

files unlimited; (this is probably what's giving you this error: [set maximum open files to -1: permission denied] -1 indicating unlimited)

check-names fail; (both occurrences - I think this directive has become obsolete with bind 9)

Change this line:

pid-file &/var/run/named.pid&;

to:

pid-file &/var/run/named/named.pid&; (the ; at the end is a must or things will go haywire )

try to make sure after all those lines under options { ....... you have a closing brace as }; just like the other sections (can't see the closing brace in your post)

and save the named.conf.

Then try this at the command line to get rid of this error: [couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied.]

[b:ff1e19ccfb]mkdir /var/run/named[/b:ff1e19ccfb]
(this will create the directory you've just specified in named.conf; if the directory already exists, that's fine; it'll just say: No such file or directory)

[b:ff1e19ccfb]chown named.named /var/run/named[/b:ff1e19ccfb]
(this will make user &named& the owner of the directory so it can have the permissions to read the contents and create files in the directory)

[b:ff1e19ccfb]touch /var/run/named/named.pid[/b:ff1e19ccfb]
(this will create the file named.pid in the directory - as specified in named.conf)

[b:ff1e19ccfb]chown named.named /var/run/named/named.pid[/b:ff1e19ccfb]
(this will make user &named& the owner of the file so it can have the permissions to read and write the process ID to the file when you start bind, e.g. 4589)

I think the warning that says [the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'] is harmless although it can be eliminated.

Then restart bind as previously:

[b:ff1e19ccfb]/scripts/restartsrv bind[/b:ff1e19ccfb]

Good luck!

 

[edesignway]

Well, so far everything appears to be resolving properly! I just would like to give a BIG thanks to everyone that helped me out. I appreciate it very much!! If there is anything you guys ever need, I'll be here!