fresh installation is hosed...
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sat Nov 17 00:15:21 UTC 2007
> Hi All: I was attempting to build a new box to run Bind on...I did the
> following:
>
> fresh install of FreeBSD 6.2
> installed openssl-0.9.8g
> installed bind-9.4.1-P1 with:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> --sysconfdir=/etc/namedb
> --mandir=/usr/share/man
> --localstatedir=/var
> --disable-threads
> --with-openssl=/usr
>
> ...and everything was working...then I replaced named.conf with the
> named.conf from my existing server, and all hell broke loose! <g>
>
> After much massaging of named.conf, I'm still stuck...when I try to start it
> with /usr/sbin/named (with or without switches) my error log says:
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1 -u root -c
> /etc/namedb/
> named.conf -t /var/named/
Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: could not configure root hints from
> 'db.cache'
> : file not found
/var/named/<directory>/db.cache does not exist, where
<directory> comes from named.conf.
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: loading configuration: file not found
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: exiting (due to fatal error)
>
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: could not configure root hints from
> 'db.cache'
> : file not found
<directory>/db.cache does not exist, where <directory>
comes from named.conf.
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: loading configuration: file not found
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: exiting (due to fatal error)
>
> Given that this is a fresh install, I don't care about rolling back and
> starting over, if that's what I need to do. Or is this a simple
> pathing/permissions issue?
>
> Any insights would be appreciated.
>
>
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Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
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