BIND9 error in FreeBSD - errno2result.c:109: unexpected error?

[Mark Andrews]

> I have been having some issues with getting BIND 9.3 to work nicely on a 
> FreeBSD 5.3 box. It's configured to run in a chroot jail under the 
> /chroot directory, and when I run it, it seems to load fine, but during 
> the load process, I get these messages:
> 
> Aug 16 16:28:36 [PROTECTED] named[13811]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u named 
> -t /chroot -c /etc/named.conf
> Aug 16 16:28:36 [PROTECTED] named[13811]: command channel listening on 
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Aug 16 16:28:36 [PROTECTED] named[13811]: errno2result.c:109: unexpected 
> error:
> Aug 16 16:28:36 [PROTECTED] named[13811]: unable to convert errno to 
> isc_result: 6: Device not configured
> 
> While this doesn't appear to be affecting the nameserver, I'm trying to 
> avoid errors at all (especially "unexpected" errors). Has anyone 
> encountered anything like this at all? I've done the standard google 
> searching and only found one instance where there was a similar problem, 
> but that was chroot going to the wrong directory. That doesn't appear to 
> be the case with this one...
> 
> /Chris

	Look at your mount options for the chroot area.  In particular
	"nodev".

	Mark
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