Bind 9 questions..little stumped
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Thu May 6 04:16:50 UTC 2004
Hello everyone.
I'm a pretty new user to BIND here. In fact, still getting acquainted
with DNS all together. Anyways, I started working with BIND in my free
time to try and learn the ins and outs of DNS and how to run a DNS server.
Before I go on, I did order the O'Reilly book, DNS and BIND, 4th edition
and expect here early next week. I am very excited to start reading this
book.
In the meantime, just have a question about getting started with BIND 9.
I'm a *BSD user and use Open and Free mostly. I went ahead and built the
BIND 9 port and had it overwrite the exisiting BIND 8 files.
As im digging in here, I noticed that I get an error when I try and use
rndc start. It says to the effect that:
rndc.key and rndc.conf not found in /etc/named
Digging through some man pages, I see I have to generate a key, which I
did using the following:
rndc-confgen -a -r /etc/named/named.conf (I have not fixed the
/dev/random on FreeBSD as I write this, which was suggested).
After I did that, as well as type: sh make-localhost in /etc/named I
proceeded to try and start bind:
rndc start
rndc: connect failed: connection refused
The only way I could get around this was by rebooting the box. But
that's not a real efficient method to go by.
So I was hoping to get some help and feedback here on what im missing
and why it works if I reboot the book, but if I try and start manually,
it flops.
I appreciate it.
T.
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