Bind 8.2.3 and error message

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Mon Jan 29 22:48:26 UTC 2001


>>>>> "John" == John  <jking2019 at my-deja.com> writes:

    John> What does this message mean ?  
    John> bind(query_source): Permission denied

It means what it says. The server attempted a bind() system call and
this failed EACCESS: "permission denied".

    John> The nameserver is authoritative and responding to queries.

This has no bearing on the problem.

    John> This is on Solaris 2.6/Bind 8.2.3 (Gcc comiled 2.9.x)
    John> running under a non-root id/group.

Presumably the name server is trying to bind to a privileged port
after it has given up super-user privileges. That would probably
happen if a new network interface has been activated after the name
server was started or if the server was reconfigured after it had done
a set[ug]id() to the non-privileged UID.


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