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[Peter Dambier]

lhamo wrote:
> i am changing over my DNS from red hat linux plat form to free BSD,i 
> have downloaded Bind 9 and am using Free bsd 5.3.how ever i cannot start 
> my named file,the following are the log messages:please advice.
> 
> May 29 17:34:14 dochula su: rinzin to root on /dev/ttyp0
> May 29 17:36:20 dochula named[23619]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -t 
> /var/named

Bind wants to live in /var/named
That means it looks for

/etc/namedb/named.conf

in

/var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf

> May 29 17:36:20 dochula named[23619]: none:0: open: 
> /etc/namedb/named.conf: file not found
> May 29 17:36:20 dochula named[23619]: loading configuration: file not found
> May 29 17:36:20 dochula named[23619]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> 

Maybe that means some moving and renaming of files for you.
Please have a look at the bind parameters:

$ /usr/sbin/named --help

usage: named [-4|-6] [-c conffile] [-d debuglevel] [-f|-g] [-n number_of_cpus]
              [-p port] [-s] [-t chrootdir] [-u username]
              [-m {usage|trace|record|size|mctx}]

named: unknown option '--'

The operating system specific help could help you too.
I am shure there are some minor changes between starting
and placing the config files between Linux and BSD. They
even differ between Linuxes.


Kind regards
Peter and Karin

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