socket.c... internal_send Invalid argument

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu May 9 17:21:19 UTC 2002


In article <abe7d3$aqqg$1 at isrv4.isc.org>, JCM  <symetrie at online.fr> wrote:
>tail /var/log/syslog
>
>	... named[28870]: starting BIND 9.2
>	...		  loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
>	...		  no IPv6 interfaces found
>	...		  listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.0.1#53
>	...		  binding TCP socket: address in use
>	...		  could'nt add command channel 127.0.0.1#953: address not
>available
>	...		  zone ... IN loaded serial 1
>	...		  running
>
>I don't know the meaning of 'binding TCP socket: address in use' :-(

It means there's already another process listening on TCP port 953, which
is supposed to be used for the rndc control channel.

If you have "lsof" installed, you can use it to find out what process is
listening on that port.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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