incomprehensible error message starting 9.2.0/FreeBSD4.3

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Marc Kandel <mkandel at ttlc.net> wrote:

> hello,

> i recently took over administering some Bind 9.2 servers.  the primary =
> is an x86 Solaris 8 and the slave i'm having trouble with is FreeBSD =
> 4.3-STABLE.  we have a cgi interface which saves the data on a "second" =
> primary then uses rsync to keep the zone files synced (to the real =
> primary as well as the secondary) and scp to keep the named.conf files =
> synced between the 3 machines.  the script then calls "rndc -c =
> $path_to_rndc.conf reload" remotely on the secondary.  i then see the =
> following in my logs:

> Aug  7 13:25:00 gold named[63963]: starting BIND 9.2.0 -c =
> /etc/named.conf -u bind -t /bind
> Aug  7 13:25:01 gold named[63963]: loading configuration: already exists
> Aug  7 13:25:01 gold named[63963]: exiting (due to fatal error)

> now i've seen some pretty useless error messages in my day but this =
> takes the cake ... kind of like that "check engine" light ...

Seems like the script starts bind and then runs rndc ?

Can you verify this ?

What happens if you manually does the "rndc -c path_to_rndc.conf reload"
command when the server is running ?


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