command channel

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Dec 12 20:36:51 UTC 2003


In article <brd6mp$1vk9$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Dankin <dankin at obroa-skai.corellian> wrote:

> I have a Mandrake 9.2
> In /var/log/messages. I have this message:
> srv01 named[3310]: couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953: not found
> 
> What does mean? What is the command channel?
> Please, excuse my english

The command channel is used to communicate with the "rndc" program.

I think the message means that you're running BIND under chroot, and the 
alternate root doesn't have something like /dev/tcp in it.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Woburn, MA


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