Unable to upgrade BIND v9.19.11 on Ubuntu without error

[Richard T.A. Neal]

Hi Darren,

Thank you, that's fixed it. I'm not sure why I didn't spot that blindingly obvious error message pointing me to the exact line in my logging configuration file! I've REM'd out that line (prefixed with '//') and the upgrade progressed successfully. Obviously something's changed in 9.19.12 and up.

For info the source of my logging file is this, and it's what I've been using for quite a few years now. But I don't actively review that specific log file so I haven't lost anything by removing that statement.

https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01526

It was indeed this line that caused all the problems, REM'ing it out has fixed it:

category delegation-only { auth_servers_log; default_debug; };

Thanks again for your help Darren, 

Richard.

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Ankney <darren.ankney at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2023 9:07 PM
To: Richard T.A. Neal <richard at richardneal.com>
Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: Unable to upgrade BIND v9.19.11 on Ubuntu without error

Hi Richard,

It looks like you have an error in the configuration file /etc/bind/named.conf.logging on line 147:

Jul 10 19:49:07 flons3 named[1140]: /etc/bind/named.conf.logging:147:
undefined category: 'delegation-only'
Jul 10 19:49:07 flons3 named[1140]: loading configuration: failure

I assume this is an included file that has your logging configuration?

It would be helpful to see the named configuration.  You can get that with named-checkconf -px which will hide any keys and pull in any includes.

Thank you,

Darren Ankney

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