rndc reload
Jeff Grossman
jeff at stikman.com
Mon Mar 25 16:32:16 UTC 2002
on 3/24/02 3:41 PM, Danny Mayer at mayer at gis.net wrote:
>
> At 02:04 PM 3/24/02, Pete Ehlke wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:54:23AM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running Bind 9.1.0 under Redhat 7.1. When I use "rndc reload" I
>>> get the following output:
>>>
>>> [root at apple named]# rndc reload
>>> rndc: connect: connection refused
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>> Of course. My first idea would be: search google for the phrase
>> "rndc: connect: connection refused". Had you done that, you would have
>> found the very first link to be
>>
>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-bind-rnd
>> c.html
>>
>> Which pretty clearly explains what your problem is and how to fix it.
>
> Actually it means that nothing is listening on that port. That page
> doesn't tell you that, it just tells you how to set up rndc. The most frequent
> reason for the above problem is that named is not running. The second
> most frequent reason is that named isn't configured to listen to the
> command channel that rndc uses. What does ps |grep "named" tell you?
>
> Also you should upgrade to a more recent version of BIND 9.1.3 at least
> but 9.2.0 would be much better.
>
> Danny
>
I found my problem. I did not have a controls line in my rndc.conf file. I
looked through the man pages for rndc and it never talked about a controls
line. Once I added that line, it started to work.
Thanks for all of the help.
Jeff
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