/var/run/ndc broken

[Don Stokes]

In article <4.1.20000514143255.00bb92a0 at 206.190.136.131>,
Ed Sawicki  <ed at alcpress.com> wrote:
>When I try to use the ndc program, I get the following.
>
>ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): Connection refused
>ndc: error: cannot connect to command channel (/var/run/ndc)
>
>The system log file says:
>unix control "/var/run/ndc" not socket.
>
>If I look at the ndc file in /var/run here's what it looks
>like.
>
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  root           0 May  8 23:17 ndc
>
>This used to work. How do I fix this?

Delete it.  Kill and restart named; it should then be re-created as a
socket.  

-- don