incomprehensible error message starting 9.2.0/FreeBSD4.3

[Marc Kandel]

peter,

the server wouldn't start at all so running rndc manually wouldn't help.

i did find my problem though ... someone had added an entry in ALL CAPS =
for a domain we already had without caps (ie. we had biz.com and =
BIZ.COM) so named was choking on the duplicate entry.  i had written a =
script to look at named.conf, grab all the domainnames (from the zone =
entries) to see if there were any duplicates ... as far as UNIX goes, =
the case sensitivity caused no domains to show twice ... a "grep -i" =
would have saved me a lot of time ...

thanks much,

--marc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu [mailto:phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:43 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: incomprehensible error message starting 9.2.0/FreeBSD4.3
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> Marc Kandel <mkandel at ttlc.net> wrote:
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> > hello,
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> > i recently took over administering some Bind 9.2 servers. =20
> the primary =3D
> > is an x86 Solaris 8 and the slave i'm having trouble with=20
> is FreeBSD =3D
> > 4.3-STABLE.  we have a cgi interface which saves the data=20
> on a "second" =3D
> > primary then uses rsync to keep the zone files synced (to the real =
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> > primary as well as the secondary) and scp to keep the=20
> named.conf files =3D
> > synced between the 3 machines.  the script then calls "rndc -c =3D
> > $path_to_rndc.conf reload" remotely on the secondary.  i=20
> then see the =3D
> > following in my logs:
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> > Aug  7 13:25:00 gold named[63963]: starting BIND 9.2.0 -c =3D
> > /etc/named.conf -u bind -t /bind
> > Aug  7 13:25:01 gold named[63963]: loading configuration:=20
> already exists
> > Aug  7 13:25:01 gold named[63963]: exiting (due to fatal error)
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> > now i've seen some pretty useless error messages in my day=20
> but this =3D
> > takes the cake ... kind of like that "check engine" light ...
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> Seems like the script starts bind and then runs rndc ?
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> Can you verify this ?
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> What happens if you manually does the "rndc -c=20
> path_to_rndc.conf reload"
> command when the server is running ?
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> Peter H=E5kanson        =20
>         IPSec  Sverige      ( At Gothenburg Riverside )
>            Sorry about my e-mail address, but i'm trying to=20
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> 	   remove "icke-reklam" if you feel for mailing me. Thanx.
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