Bind 8 & ndc

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of dreynos at fi.uba.ar
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 4:26 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Bind 8 & ndc
> 
> 
> Hi, guys.
> I want to ask you about a trouble that I have with BIND 8.2.3 and
8.3.3.
> I installed BIND 8.2.3 succesfuly (or I tried) on an Sun worksatation
with
> Solaris 8. I start DNS server with "named" and it works fine, but when
I
> tried to stop it, then appears the following error. It is :
> 
> SGERDTS# /temp >ndc stop
> ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): No such file or directory
> ndc: error: cannot connect to command channel
(/app/named/etc/ndc.d/ndc)
> 
> I saw that there wasn't any ndc.d directory, then I created it. But
that
> message appeared again. I tried to create ndc file (#touch ndc) but
the
> same error message appears. I find out in Internet for some help about
ndc
> and ndc.d/ndc and I found that ndc is a "socket file". I don't know if

Yes, this file is a socket.  It is a unix domain socket used for inter
process communication (IPC) between ndc and named. You cannot create
this file by "touch"ing it.


> it's true, but on another DNS that works well, exist this file as :
> 
> # cd /app/named/etc/ndc.d/
> # ls -a
> ..    ..   ndc
> # ls -la
> total 4
> drwx------   2 root     root         512 Jul 26 16:07 .
> drwxr-xr-x   3 named    other        512 Oct 15 12:34 ..
> srwxr-xr-x   1 root     other          0 Jul 26 16:07 ndc

Notice the "s" in the first character of the directory listing.  This
character indicates that this is a "stream" file (socket).
> 
> I don't know if it is created automatically during BIND's
installation, or
> should I do it manually.
> Could you give me some directions about the solution of this problem.
> I don't know yet why this file wasn't created while the installation.
> 
> Thanks.
> Diego.
> 
> PD : For installing, I did these steps :
> # cd src
> # make stdlinks
> # make clean
> # make depend
> # make all
> # make install
> Is there some trouble in it ?
>