I'm getting: ndc: error: name server has not started (yet?)

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Thu Feb 3 21:16:04 UTC 2000


	What is in the syslog?

> Hi.
> I'm running a Solaris 2.6 name server, running bind-8.2.2-P5
> 
> Whenever I do a "ndc start" I see the error message
> ndc: error: name server has not started (yet?)
> 
> But yet indeed named is running, however, it does not create the socket
> in /usr/local/etc, so any further ndc commands/queries fail.
> 
> ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): No such file or directory
> ndc: error: cannot connect to command channel (/usr/local/etc/ndc)
> 
> We are providing DNS for roughly 1900 zones on that machine,
> and it's also a mail relay server.  Load on the machine is below 0.50
> most of the time.  It is an Ultra-1 with 64MB Of Ram and a single
> 143MHz CPU.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Bind is working as it's supposed
> to, but not being able to start and stop it via ndc is a little
> annoying.
> 
> -- 
> josh
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. / Internet Software Consortium
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