/var/adm/messages & DNS for Dummies

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at center.osis.gov
Tue Apr 16 15:03:18 UTC 2002


On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:18:32PM -0800, Brian O'Gorman wrote:
> I'm trying to follow along with the "DNS for Dummies"  which is
> http://everythingsolaris.org/articles/dfd/index.html

Thanks!  This is a link I hadn't seen before.  It also pointed me to
everythinglinux.org ;-). [And everythingmac.org, which some others may
like.]

> I've stopped and started /etc/init.d/inetsvc

Bad idea.  Too much going on.

> I keep on getting the following in my  /var/adm/messages. How do I solve
> the the "Address already in use" daemon error? Any help is appreciated!
> Thanks in advance.

As mentioned, that is an 'inetd' problem caused by your using 'inetsvc'
to turn things on multiple times.  Note that it does NOT turn things
off, breaking the /etc/init.d/ model.

HOWEVER [and the reason I respond after several excellent responses]:

> Apr 15 16:09:15 lithodes named[17200]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice]
> starting.  in.named BIND 8.2.2-P5 Fri Dec 21 05:14:00 PST 2001
> Apr 15 16:09:15 lithodes        Generic Patch-5.8-December 2001
> Apr 15 16:09:15 lithodes named[17200]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] Zone
> "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file named.local): No default TTL set using SOA
> minimum instead

I may hope that the reason you didn't ask the FAQ about ehat this error
message means is that you found the FAA to it already.  But I note that
DfD does not mention it.  You need to put the default TTL at the
beginning of the file, so:

========================== zone.lithodes ==============================
$TTL		1d	; or whatever time interval you want

@	IN SOA		ns	hostmaster at noaa.gov	(
		... )
...
=======================================================================

Be sure to be using the current version of BIND, instead of an old and
known-buggy one!

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Joe Yao				jsdy at center.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
OSIS Center Systems Support					EMT-B
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