Help, BIND9 initialization error on Windows 2000!

[Danny Mayer]

Stefan Puiu wrote:
> Just my two cents: I've seen an error like this on Windows, and it was
> related to upgrading an app, which would remove a service and then
> install a replacement (with the same name). Sometimes the old service
> couldn't be removed and you'd see something like this when trying to
> run the service.
> 
> At least that's what I understand from your posts, since you say you
> are able to run named from the command line just fine. You can try
> getting the srvinstw.exe tool for Windows 2000 (look for it using
> google, should be on the MS site), remove the "ISC BIND" service (I
> think it has the same name for BIND 8) and then reinstall BIND 9.
> 

Yes, I kept the same name. Cleaning out the registry entries would be a 
good idea. I no longer remember the differences betweeen BIND 8 and BIND 
9 registry entries.

Danny