Recent Problem with BIND 9 under Windows XP

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Jun 27 22:57:10 UTC 2007


> Greetings everyone:
> 
> I'm having a problem with starting the ISC BIND service under Windows
> XP SP2 with all the latest MS patches.  I had been running BIND 9 for
> quite some time and every version of BIND9 including beta's, release
> candidates and release versions including 9.4.1 have ran fine until
> recently which I am not sure when since I don't usually monitor if
> BIND was started except after each installation and reboot.  And the
> config file has not been modified.  BIND is owned by the named account
> and is installed in C:\Windows\System32\dns with that directory and
> all directory under it having the named account with full permission
> to read/write.  My system acts as a secondary DNS with named.conf
> located in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dns\etc.  When the system tries to
> start ISC BIND service, it shows in the event manager under System as
> a Error 2 events:
> 
> Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the ISC BIND service to connect.
> 
> followed by:
> 
> The ISC BIND service failed to start due to the following error:
> The service did not respond to the start or control request in a
> timely fashion.
> 
> If I try to start the ISC BIND service manually, I will get a pop-up
> window after 5-10 seconds that says and the same two events are in the
> event manager under System as a Error:
> 
> Could not start ISC BIND service on Local Computer.
> 
> Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control
> request in a timely fashion

	Look at the Application log.
-- 
Mark Andrews, ISC
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