named error: not listening on any interfaces: Problem solved!)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3.0.6.32.20000313135820.007d24a0 at mail.9netave.net>,
 <chris at tourneyland.com> wrote:
>ARRG! Right you are. I mistakenly ran named as chris, and not root. On BOTH
>machines!!! I thought I killed them because running ps -x | grep named from
>root was coming up empty - I didn't realize it wasn't showing me things I
>started up as chris. But I switched to chris, and they were there.
>
>Thanks Ralf, and to everyone who helped on this and my previous question.
>This has got to be the fastest, most helpful list I've ever seen.

The "Permission denied" error messages should have given you the hint that
it was a problem of privileges.

>
> - Chris
>
>>At 08:31 PM 3/13/00 +0100, you wrote:
>>>On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:15:51PM -0600, chris at tourneyland.com wrote:
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>>>> Mar 13 12:33:21 hoss named[4639]: bind(dfd=20, [216.62.177.2].53):
>Permission denied
>>>> Mar 13 12:33:21 hoss named[4639]: deleting interface [216.62.177.2].53
>>>> Mar 13 12:33:21 hoss named[4639]: bind(dfd=20, [127.0.0.1].53):
>Permission denied
>>>> Mar 13 12:33:21 hoss named[4639]: deleting interface [127.0.0.1].53
>>>> Mar 13 12:33:21 hoss named[4639]: not listening on any interfaces
>>>
>>>Hmm, it looks like bind to port 53 fails.
>>>Are you sure you trying this as root? If not, kill and restart named! 
>>>Is there another named process running? Kill it!
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