<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Aug 7, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Dimitri Yioulos <<a href="mailto:dyioulos@netatlantic.com" class="">dyioulos@netatlantic.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hello, all.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I’m pretty new to BIND, and am tasked with monitoring several BIND server. A script is in place that runs hourly, via cron, looking for any anomalies in named.log. Here’s the essence of the script:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">grep -i -E ': error: '|grep -i -E -v 'view external: update |view external: zone transfer|socket.c:5268: unexpected error:|connect(fe80::#53) 22/Invalid argument|unable to convert errno to isc_result: 92: Protocol not available|socket.c:1700: unexpected error:|errno2result.c:110: unexpected error:|22/Invalid argument|socket.c:4381: unexpected error:|socket.c:1890: unexpected error:'</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Your script leads me to believe that you have IPv6 networking disabled.</div><div>Try running named with -4 flag or get IPv6 working.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">06-Aug-2015 09:29:01.616 general: error: zone<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://somedomain.com/IN/internal:" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">somedomain.com/IN/internal:</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has 0 SOA records</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>That usually means you've setup a zone and the SOA record doesn't match or is otherwise invalid.</div><div>See what "named-checkzone <a href="http://somedomain.com" class="">somedomain.com</a>" says.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-- </div><div>-Chuck</div></div><br class=""></body></html>