Bind failing to start on new 9.9.4 server

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Feb 9 15:02:00 UTC 2017



On 02/09/2017 09:55 AM, Alan Clegg wrote:
> On 2/9/17 8:53 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>> On 02/09/2017 09:31 AM, Ray Bellis wrote:
>>> On 09/02/2017 14:28, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> I am migrating to Centos7 from Centos6.  Going from Bind 9.8.2 to 9.9.4,
>>>> I am building this on a new server.  I currently do not have DNSSEC
>>>> enabled, and not enabling it for the initial migration work.
>>>>
>>>> I have looked over changes in named.conf and believe I have made the
>>>> necessary changes.  My named.conf is  loading as are the zone files.
>>>> This is what 'systemctl -l status named' shows:
>>> I'd suggest that you try starting named manually with the '-g' flag so
>>> that it sends all output to stderr without forking.
>>>
>>> This should hopefully reveal why it's failing to start.
>>>
>> '-g' is not a valid option.
> "named -g" isn't valid?
>
> Wow, they really HAVE changed the code.
>
Careless me.

I tried 'bind -g' rather than 'named -g'

Problem when a major service, bind, is the same as a program function.

ARGH!!!   :)

Making some headway.




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