rndc reload problems

Kirk bind at kirkb.net
Wed Oct 8 13:50:49 UTC 2008


Li Tongxi wrote:
> Hi, All:    I meet a strange problem with my rndc. I'm using BIND9.3.2 on
> WindowsXP and my DNS's IP is 192.168.1.18.  In the DNS server, if I use
> "rndc -s 127.0.0.1 reload", I can see the reload works fine. But if I use
> "rndc -s 192.168.1.18 reload", it will report connection refused. With a
> "-V" option, it reports following:
> "
> C:\named\bin>rndc -s 192.168.1.18  -V reload
> create memory context
> create socket manager
> create task manager
> create task
> create logging context
> setting log tag
> creating log channel
> enabling log channel
> create parser
> get config key list
> decode base64 secret
> reload
> post event
> using server 192.168.1.18 (192.168.1.18#953)
> create socket
> connect
> rndc: connect failed: connection refused
> "
> The problem seems that the socket can not be connected to my own machine. I
> have closed the Windows Firewall, and 953 port shall be connected. Also, I
> have add "192.168.1.18" to the allow statement in the Control statement.
> Anything need I do to make "rndc -s 192.168.1.18 reload" work fine?
>    Thanks a lot for your help!


Does "netstat -an" show 192.168.1.18 listening on port 953 ?

Post the "control" section from your config so we can help.  If you dont 
want to do that, take a look at the below url for assistance.

http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm93/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#id2552471

- Kirk


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