BIND on Windows Vista

[Matt Reeve]

Danny,

thanks, that has worked, the messages are clean now. There is still one 
entry in the event viewer per line of log, as it were, as opposed to one 
entry with the entire startup chat. That's correct behaviour is it?

Matt.

Danny Mayer wrote:
> Matt Reeve wrote:
>   
>> I've tried bind 9.4.2b1 and 9.5.0a6 and find that both these work and
>> the service starts correctly!
>>
>> Well, almost, the entries in the event viewer seem not entirely clean, I
>> get about 15 entries at startup, including ones such as:
>>
>> "The description for Event ID 3 from source named cannot be found.
>> Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your
>> local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or
>> repair the component on the local computer.
>>
>> If the event originated on another computer, the display information had
>> to be saved with the event.
>>
>> The following information was included with the event:
>>
>> starting BIND 9.5.0a6
>>
>> the message resource is present but the message is not found in the
>> string/message table"
>>
>> and:
>>
>> "The description for Event ID 3 from source named cannot be found.
>> Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your
>> local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or
>> repair the component on the local computer.
>>
>> If the event originated on another computer, the display information had
>> to be saved with the event.
>>
>> The following information was included with the event:
>>
>> found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
>>
>> the message resource is present but the message is not found in the
>> string/message table"
>>
>> etc. etc. finishing up with one saying "running" (as well as all the
>> other junk that these two have)
>>
>>     
>
> Copy the bindevt.dll to system32. The installer is moving it to the
> wrong location. The dll is used by the event viewer and not by named to
> interpret the event.
>
> Danny
>   
>> So it looks like the problem is almost solved....
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matt.
>>
>> Matt Reeve wrote:
>>     
>>> My experience is slightly different - I've found that I can start
>>> named from my account which has administrator rights, using:
>>>
>>> runas /user:named "named -g"
>>>
>>> and this starts fine (after I supply named's password at the prompt).
>>> I can also simply run "named -g" at a run-as-adminstrator command
>>> prompt and that starts fine too.
>>>
>>> I'm using Vista 32-bit.
>>>
>>> Matt.
>>>
>>> Fabien wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm facing the same trouble, I think it's related to the UAC feature
>>>> on Vista, but not sure.
>>>> I'm running Vista 32 bits.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, I did manage to start BIND only under my personal account
>>>> (I had to add myself in the "log on as a service" privilege and
>>>> change the service properties).
>>>>
>>>> If you execute "named -g" in a "run as administrator" CLI, it's OK
>>>> If you execute "named -g" under your session, it's OK
>>>> If you execute "named -g" under named account (runas), it first
>>>> crashes, then output this :
>>>> 15-aout-2007 19:53:32.144 starting BIND 9.4.1-P1 -g
>>>> 15-aout-2007 19:53:32.149 found 2 CPUs, using 2 worker threads
>>>> and generates the c0000005 error, but I don't know what named is
>>>> violating (memory access ? thread ? registry ?).
>>>>
>>>> Really curious,
>>>> I've tried to tag named.exe to run under administrator rights, no
>>>> change.
>>>> I've tried to add the named account into Administrators group, no
>>>> change.
>>>> I've also added full permissions for named account on the BIND
>>>> folders, I thought named had to write something within, but no change.
>>>>
>>>> any idea why the named account can't manage to start the service ?
>>>> even with some administrative rights ?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Fabien
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
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