Recent Problem with BIND 9 under Windows XP

[Vincent Poy]

On 6/27/07, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.

Already tried that, there is nothing under Application log that
relates to named, named is only shown under System log.

Cheers,
Vince