Help, BIND9 initialization error on Windows 2000!

[Danny Mayer]

Shi Jingnian wrote:
> Danny Mayer wrote:
> 
>>It's possible you have mismatched DLL's. Try copying
>>all the .exe and .dll files to the same install 
>>directory and then start the service
>>
> 
> i re-unzipped BIND9.3.1.zip and overwrote all exe/dll 
> files in the directory but no use as it was. in fact,
> i examined the bin dir after each uninstallation and
> found the files there were already cleared out except 
> BINDinstall.exe. Also i found BIND only uses libeay32
> in named\bin and bindevt.dll in system directory. i
> also examined registry files of both computers and 
> found no differences on BIND-related items. i guess
> something's wrong with my system, for named.exe got
> no chance to give its own error messages. Following
> are all messages when starting BIND service:

The installer appears to be installing DLL's in system32. It really 
should install it in named\bin (in your case). Try copying the lib*.dll 
files into that directory and restart.

Danny