Help, BIND9 initialization error on Windows 2000!

[Shi Jingnian]

Danny wrote:
>Mark Andrews wrote:
>>>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.
>> 
>Try running it directly from a DOS prompt and see what kind of er...
>gets: named -g.
>
>You should have something either in the Application event log or ...
>whatever you set up for a log.
>
>Danny
>> 	Mark
>> --
>> Mark Andrews, ISC
>> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
>> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742        INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at i...
>> 
>

Running "named -g" successfully, said on the screen (time ignored):
 > starting BIND 9.3.1 -g
 > found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
 > loading configuration from 'C:\named\etc\named.conf'
 > listening on IPv4 interface Loopback Interface 1, 127.0.0.1#53
 > listening on IPv4 interface TCP/IP Interface 2, 211.94.248.73#53
 > command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
 > ignoring config file logging statement due to -g option
 > zone 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA/IN: loaded serial 2005070401
 > zone ......
 > running
No events recorded. i deleted the process and tried to start the
service, the same error appeared. Seems the service manager got 
an error when it tried to initial for named.exe?

i'm not eager for the problem. i've got it running on another
machine anyway. but if any ideas, i'd like to try.

Shi.