Newbie (Probably Typical) Question...

[Miss Kitty]

Ah.. ok.. back to my old self...

Will look at that.  Thanks!  (Not that I'll understand it.. ;)

    Lee


Cricket Liu <cricket at acmebw.com> wrote in message
news:049001befa49$4914a940$b477a8ce at acmebw.com...
> Miss Kitty <misskitty at sexonline.net> wrote in message
> news:<pQAB3.22598$Rn.14524 at news.rdc2.occa.home.com>...
> > Well, not really a "newbie".. at least not to Bind.  Am running 4.x and
am
> > now wanting to setup an 8.x Bind install on a FreeBSD 3.x machine.
> >
> > Can't get ndc to run, and can't find any error log... it just doesn't do
> > anything.  Have gone thru just about all the examples and faq's I could
> > find... but nothing seems to work.
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions, point me to a good tutorial on this
version..
> > or?
>
> What version of BIND is it?  If it's 8.2 or newer, ndc is an executable.
> Before that, ndc was a shell script.
>
> One fairly common problem folks have with the executable version of ndc is
> that the FIFO that it wants to use to communicate with named isn't where
it
> expects.  Make sure that the pathname to ndc's FIFO in the named.conf
> controls statement matches the pathname compiled into ndc.  Also make sure
> named is creating the FIFO at startup, with permissions ndc can use.  I
have
> a little syntactic information on ndc and controls at
> http://www.acmebw.com/papers/bind82.pdf.
>
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