startup, boot vs manually

[Bill Larson]

Another possibility, maybe when starting named at boot time your
networking is not totally configured and you can't reach any of the
root name servers.

What info does your log file give you?

Bill Larson

> >>>>> "Benarson" == Benarson Behajaina <Benarson.Behajaina at swh.sk> writes:
> 
>     Benarson> - When named is starded at boot time, my name server
>     Benarson> could not determine IP addresses of hosts which are not
>     Benarson> in my zone i.e. hosts not in /etc/domain/company.xy
> 
>     Benarson> - When I restart the named (manually) with the following
>     Benarson> command: /etc/rc.d/named stop /etc/rc.d/named start
>     Benarson> everything works fine.
> 
>     Benarson> So, what's is the difference between starting BIND at
>     Benarson> boot time and manually ?
> 
> Maybe you have two different versions of named installed on the
> computer and perhaps they look at different config files? When you
> start by hand, the search path is set up so the right version of named
> runs. At boot time, another one is used. Or the same one with a
> different config file as an argument.