Bind 9.5.0-Pl not finding existing IPv6 interface

[Tom Mikelson]

Not using a chroot setup.

It does not matter whether I run the service as "root" or "named", I
still get "no IPv6 interfaces found".

# /usr/local/sbin/named -f -g
11-Jul-2008 10:36:05.671 starting BIND 9.5.0-P1 -f -g
11-Jul-2008 10:36:05.674 loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
11-Jul-2008 10:36:05.675 the working directory is not writable
11-Jul-2008 10:36:05.675 no IPv6 interfaces found
11-Jul-2008 10:36:05.676 listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53

# /usr/local/sbin/named -u named -f -g
11-Jul-2008 10:33:59.184 starting BIND 9.5.0-P1 -u named -f -g
11-Jul-2008 10:33:59.188 loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
11-Jul-2008 10:33:59.188 the working directory is not writable
11-Jul-2008 10:33:59.189 no IPv6 interfaces found
11-Jul-2008 10:33:59.189 listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53

/proc/net/if_inet6 exists and contains the correct IPv6 addresses.

# cat /proc/net/if_inet6
200104681da000000000000000000023 02 40 00 80     eth0
00000000000000000000000000000001 01 80 10 80       lo
fe80000000000000020423fffe7955a4 02 40 20 80     eth0


Basic setup:
/var/named/data
/var/named/slaves
/etc/named.conf

Options from named.conf:
options {
        cleaning-interval 120;
        version "";
        directory "/var/named";
        dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
        notify no;
        allow-query { any; };
        pid-file "/var/named/named.pid";
        listen-on { any; };
        listen-on-v6 { any; };
};

Tom

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>
>> I had a functioning DNS (BIND) service that was configured for both
>> IPv4 and IPv6.  I upgraded to BIND 9.5.0-P1.  When building from
>> source the README stated that "If your operating system has integrated
>> support for IPv6, it
>> will be used automatically.".  The OS is Fedora 9 with IPv4 and IPv6
>> interfaces up and running. Now when starting the DNS service I get the
>> dreaded "no IPv6 interfaces found".  The DNS service is binding to the
>> IPv4 interface.  Any
>> ideas how to get BIND to also find the IPv6 interface?
>
>        Ensure that /proc/net/if_inet6 is available in the chroot file
>        system.
>
>        Mark
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
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