Named Won't Start, could not listen

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Jul 25 13:56:04 UTC 2005


> Hi,
>  
> 
> I know this question has been asked before, but I just can't figure out what
> to do.
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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
> 
> 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 trying
> 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.

	No.  Please read the message.  There is another copy of named
	already running.
 
> 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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> 
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