fresh installation is hosed...

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sat Nov 17 00:15:21 UTC 2007


> Hi All: I was attempting to build a new box to run Bind on...I did the 
> following:
> 
> fresh install of FreeBSD 6.2
> installed openssl-0.9.8g
> installed bind-9.4.1-P1 with:
>     ./configure --prefix=/usr
>         --sysconfdir=/etc/namedb
>         --mandir=/usr/share/man
>         --localstatedir=/var
>         --disable-threads
>         --with-openssl=/usr
> 
> ...and everything was working...then I replaced named.conf with the 
> named.conf from my existing server, and all hell broke loose! <g>
> 
> After much massaging of named.conf, I'm still stuck...when I try to start it 
> with /usr/sbin/named (with or without switches) my error log says:
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1 -u root -c 
> /etc/namedb/
> named.conf -t /var/named/
Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: could not configure root hints from 
> 'db.cache'
> : file not found

	/var/named/<directory>/db.cache does not exist, where
	<directory> comes from named.conf.
	
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: loading configuration: file not found
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: could not configure root hints from 
> 'db.cache'
> : file not found

	<directory>/db.cache does not exist, where <directory>
	comes from named.conf.

> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: loading configuration: file not found
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> Given that this is a fresh install, I don't care about rolling back and 
> starting over, if that's what I need to do. Or is this a simple 
> pathing/permissions issue?
> 
> Any insights would be appreciated. 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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