Named Won't Start, could not listen

Stefan Puiu stefan.puiu at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 13:47:41 UTC 2005


Well, are you sure it's not already started? That would explain the
fact that something is already listening on UDP port 53 :).

On 7/25/05, Peter Clutton <peter at peterclutton.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am running FreeBSD 5.3 with Bind 8 (also tried 9) and get the following
> errors when trying to start named
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> Creating IPv4 interface rl0 failed: interface ignored
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> Could not listen on UDP socket: address in use
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> Which goes on and on. Again I know it has been mentioned that it is tryin=
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> to make a new connection, which it can't do, and something about dropping
> root, but I have no idea how to get it to work.
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> It is a new clean install, and I am running it as root.
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> Any help would be much appreciated.
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