BIND on Windows Vista

[Danny Mayer]

Matt Reeve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> are there any plans to support ISC BIND on Windows Vista? (or better 
> still has anybody made it work?)

It should work.

> I've tried 9.4.1-P1 and it installs OK, but the service fails to start, 
> the error in the event viewer is:
> 
> Faulting application named.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x4691b2a7, 
> faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, 
> exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00000000, process id 0xe14, 
> application start time 0x01c7dce2a1025bcd
> 

Are you running 32-bit Windows or 64-bit Windows?

Run named from the DOS prompt. CD to the directory where it's installed
and then run it as follows:

named -g

That should put all output to the DOS Window. See how far it gets and
post the output from the DOS Window.

Danny