Chrooting DNS and its errors

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri Nov 17 00:40:48 UTC 2000


	Firstly upgrade to BIND 8.2.2-P7.

	Secondly the prolem here is that /usr/local/etc/ndc is not
	a socket, but most probably a old ndc.  This problem also
	arises if DESTSBIN and DESTRUN are set to the same directory.

	Mark
> Hello,
> 
> Recently I have installed BIND 8.2.2.P5 on Solaris 7. To ensure a save dns
> server connected to the Internet I have chrootéd the BIND installation
> following the guidelines of "Hardening the BIND DNS server" which can be
> found at www.securutyportal.com.  The DNS named runs now from /home/dns
> 
> The original BIND (in /usr/local) is still on the disk but does not run.
> 
> When starting the server (and the chroot'ed DNS server) the following
> messages appear in the messages file:
> 
> named [69]: staring named 8.2.2-P5 root at echo.server.com /tmp/src/bin/named
> named [69]: unix control "/usr/local/etc/ndc"connect failedm Socket
> operation on non-socket
> named [69]: ctl_server: bind: Address already in use
> named [70]: ready to answer queries
> 
> To me it seems that the two named where both trying to run. But I'm almost
> certain that this is not the case.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea about what this problem can be and how it can be
> solved.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
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