BIND 9.4.2 on Solaris 8

[Kirk Bradel]

>> Greetings,
>>
>> Newly compiled BIND 9.4.2 on Solaris 8 kicks errors like below, Although
>> named *appears* to be listening and functioning fine.
>>
>> Anyone have ideas what would cause the below errors?
> 
> lib/isc/unix/entropy.c
> 	/*
>          * Solaris 2.5.1 does not have support for sockets (S_IFSOCK),
>          * but it does return type S_IFIFO (the OS believes that
>          * the socket is a fifo).  This may be an issue if we tell
>          * the program to look at an actual FIFO as its source of
>          * entropy.
>          */
> #if defined(S_ISSOCK)
>         if (S_ISSOCK(_stat.st_mode))
>                 is_usocket = ISC_TRUE;
> #endif
> #if defined(S_ISFIFO) && defined(sun)
>         if (S_ISFIFO(_stat.st_mode))
>                 is_usocket = ISC_TRUE;
> #endif
> 
> 	Turn "defined(S_ISFIFO) && defined(sun)" into "0".
> 
> 	Mark
>  
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.069 starting BIND 9.4.2 -c /etc/named.conf -4 -g
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.091 loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.095 no IPv6 interfaces found
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.098 listening on IPv4 interface lo0, 127.0.0.1#53
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.108 listening on IPv4 interface eri0, 10.104.52.69#53
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.137 automatic empty zone: 127.IN-ADDR.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.140 automatic empty zone: 254.169.IN-ADDR.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.142 automatic empty zone: 2.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.143 automatic empty zone: 255.255.255.255.IN-ADDR.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.145 automatic empty zone: 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.
>> 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.147 automatic empty zone: 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.
>> 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.149 automatic empty zone: D.F.IP6.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.151 automatic empty zone: 8.E.F.IP6.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.153 automatic empty zone: 9.E.F.IP6.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.155 automatic empty zone: A.E.F.IP6.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.157 automatic empty zone: B.E.F.IP6.ARPA
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.175 command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
>> *************************************
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.177 errno2result.c:111: unexpected error:
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.179 unable to convert errno to isc_result: 95: Socket op
>> eration on non-socket
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.181 could not open entropy source /dev/random: unexpecte
>> d error
>> *************************************29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.182 ignoring config
>>  file logging statement due to -g option
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.200 zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 20021017
>> 0
>> 29-Nov-2007 15:56:27.210 running
>>
>>
>> 9.3.4-P1 outputs similar errors
>>
>> Previous versions 9.2.x compiled and ran fine without the above errors.
>>
>>


Thanks Mark,

That seemed to have done the trick.  No more errors when starting named.

May I ask what that did?

Forgive me, i am relatively code challenged. 8^)