BIND 9.2.3 error on Solaris 9

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Oct 25 11:39:33 UTC 2005


> Dear All,
>  
>     Since from last week i am facing following Bind  problem. 
> 
>   A.   I have installed bind 9.2.3 on solaris 9 with "chroot" , i am  able
> to start named but my logs shows following error
> 
> Oct 25 10:28:03 bragat03 named[8357]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] command
> channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> Oct 25 10:28:03 bragat03 named[8357]: [ID 873579 daemon.error]
> errno2result.c:109: unexpected error:
> Oct 25 10:28:03 bragat03 named[8357]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] unable to
> convert errno to isc_result: 6: No such device or address

	You have the chroot area on a filesystem mounted with -nodev
	or you have the wrong major and/or minor numbers on the device
	files in the chroot area.  They should match what is in /dev.

	Device numbers are OS specific.  You can't just use the numbers
	from one OS on another.

>  B.   ps -ef | grep named
>     root  8359  7419  0 12:32:55 pts/1    0:00 grep named
>    named  8357     1  0 12:28:03 ?        0:00 named -t /chroot/named -u
> named -c /etc/named.conf
> 
> C. I am unable to do nslookup on my dns server.  Following is an error
> message
> 
> *** Can't find server name for address 10.1.252.18: No response from server 
> ============================================================================
> =

> D.  /usr/local/sbin/named-checkconf  /etc/rndc.conf   ( rndc has following
> error)
> /etc/rndc.conf:2: unknown option 'default-key'
> /etc/rndc.conf:3: unknown option 'default-server'
> /etc/rndc.conf:6: unknown option 'key'

	named-checkconf is for named.conf not rndc.conf
 
>       -------------------------------------------------
> E.  more /etc/rndc.conf 
> options {
> default-key "rndckey";
> default-server 127.0.0.1;
> };
> server 127.0.0.1 {
>        key  "rndckey";
> };
> key "rndckey" {
>         algorithm "hmac-md5";
>         secret "LELDXRrNR9tMJHPjS9kI=";
> };
> ============================================================================
> =
> F.  more /etc/named.conf
> 
> controls {
>         inet 127.0.0.1  allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys {rndckey; };
> };
> 
> key "rndckey" {
>         algorithm       "hmac-md5";
>         secret          "/LELDXRrNR9tMJHPjS9kI=";
> };
> 
> options {
>         directory       "/etc";
>         pid-file        "/var/run/named.pid";
>         statistics-file "/var/run/named.stats";
>         dump-file       "/var/run/named.db";
> 
>         # hide our "real" version number
>         version         "[secured]";
> };
> 
>         // query-source address * port 53;
> 
> zone "." {
>              type hint;
>              type hint;
>              file "root.hint";
> };
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>          type master;
>           file "db.127.0.0";
> };
> zone "localhost" {
>        type master;
>        file "db.local";
> };
> include "/etc/rndc.key";
> 
> ======================================================================
>      I am expecting great help from all experts.
> 
> 
> Ganesh BORHADE
> 
> 
> 
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