Help, BIND9 initialization error on Windows 2000!

[Mark Andrews]

> Danny wrote:
> >Shi Jingnian wrote:
> >> i uninstalled BIND8 on windows 2000 server (which
> >> ran well) and installed BIND9, with all zone files
> >> and config file rewritten. However, as i started
> >> the service, it popped out an error dialog saying
> >> initialization(0xc0000142) failed. i tried to
> >> install BIND 9 on another windows 2000 server, it
> >> started well with the same config file and the zone
> >> files. What's the matter? i searched and compared
> >> the files including registry files, no difference
> >> found between the two machines...
> >> 
> >> By the way i should say i found a bug in BIND 8 and
> >> BIND 9, they created wrong UninstallString value in
> >> the registry file (C:\WINNT\BINDinstall.exe)
> >> no matter where i installed BIND.
> >> 
> >> i tried installing BIND 9 again on that machine but
> >> it failed again. no other info found about it.
> >> what should i do next?  please help me!
> >> 
> 
> >What does the event log tell you? 
> System event told ISC BIND failed to start because of
> timeout and an application popup because of BIND 
> initialization error(0xc0000142).  Application event 
> told nothing. No BIND log produced although i said it
> in named.conf.
> 
> >Is named.conf in the right place? 
> Exactly installed according to Alex's guide.
> (http://transposed.org/techstuff/bind9-win2k.html)
> C:\named\bin\named.exe and C:\named\etc\named.conf,
> i think it is in right place, the other two servers
> are running well with the same installation.
> 
> >Did you read the readme1st.txt file? 
> Yes, as well as Alex's guide.
> 
> >Did you set up write permissions for the account 
> >running named to write to the directory you specify 
> >in the options directory directive?
> Sure. Full permission to the path c:\named.
> once i did forget setting the permission for the path
> of the log file on another machine, BIND gave me an 
> application event to tell me permission denied.
> 
> As i said last, i installed BIND 9 on another machine
> exactly as the first, it runs well; then i installed
> it on the third machine, it runs well too. the only
> difference is i just uninstalled BIND 8 on the first
> machine. i'd say BIND should give me an exact meaning
> of error 0xc0000142, or BIND missed to check smth
> so as to let system find the error.
> 
> thank you Danny, i expect you can dig something out.
> 
> Shi.
> 

	Named logs its error messages to the Application log.

	It will only follow "logging" once it has successfully read
	and parsed named.conf without detecting a error.

	Mark
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