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<div>So basic troubleshooting 101 .. break your problem into chunks. If you remove all of these sinkhole zones does BIND start?<br>
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If it does start then start looking at the zones you are loading. If it does not start then start looking at BIND and/or the OS.<br>
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Good hunting!<br>
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John<br>
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<div style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'"><b>From:</b> Blason R <blason16@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Nov 26, 2017 9:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> bind-users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> My DNS sinkhole is failing to start<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Guys,
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<div>I am setting sinkhole server and have almost around 123000 zones. The server is setup on CentOS 7.4.</div>
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<div>Everything seems to be proper and have created the zones. however when I am starting named.service its failing and not sure why.</div>
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<div>Can someone please help me? </div>
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<div>[<a href="mailto:root@dnsdf.isnlab.in">root@dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> /cf/cleandns/sbin]# systemctl status named.service</div>
<div>● named.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)</div>
<div> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)</div>
<div> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2017-11-26 20:52:29 IST; 13s ago</div>
<div> Process: 2135 ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c if [ ! "$DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING" == "yes" ]; then /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -z "$NAMEDCONF"; else echo "Checking of zone files is disabled"; fi (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)</div>
<div> Main PID: 1709 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)</div>
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<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://12aww7mdklwvh1sgd2kk1lwsr3.net/IN">12aww7mdklwvh1sgd2kk1lwsr3.net/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://12b0jv17vnwgdb6bmxf13yuq1e.net/IN">12b0jv17vnwgdb6bmxf13yuq1e.net/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://12b5sba8fsvv29jmm68o6rwk.org/IN">12b5sba8fsvv29jmm68o6rwk.org/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://12b8ko6forrxv1oml8251kfizkh.com/IN">12b8ko6forrxv1oml8251kfizkh.com/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://12bc8ds10wet991cms4qtnwlfzl.org/IN">12bc8ds10wet991cms4qtnwlfzl.org/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://12bdyz8slslfbr1dhi81x20kcq.net/IN">12bdyz8slslfbr1dhi81x20kcq.net/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:29 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> systemd[1]: named.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:29 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> systemd[1]: Failed to start Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS).</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:29 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> systemd[1]: Unit named.service entered failed state.</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:29 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> systemd[1]: named.service failed.</div>
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<div>[<a href="mailto:root@dnsdf.isnlab.in">root@dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> /cf/cleandns/sbin]# journalctl -xe</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://1298sxi1n08hmmr5agkr1vzcm2r.com/IN">1298sxi1n08hmmr5agkr1vzcm2r.com/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://129ax9r9558xk135lw6ueaewun.org/IN">129ax9r9558xk135lw6ueaewun.org/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://129cbttfzmkz4x2ziijr14j5b.com/IN">129cbttfzmkz4x2ziijr14j5b.com/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://129ei6z1bn458l1lcpsxg1x35586.net/IN">129ei6z1bn458l1lcpsxg1x35586.net/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://129jbef21rpai1s46moh8pe2yl.net/IN">129jbef21rpai1s46moh8pe2yl.net/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
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<div>Nov 26 20:52:19 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> bash[2135]: zone
<a href="http://12bdyz8slslfbr1dhi81x20kcq.net/IN">12bdyz8slslfbr1dhi81x20kcq.net/IN</a>: loaded serial 2006060301</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:29 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> systemd[1]: named.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:29 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> systemd[1]: Failed to start Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS).</div>
<div>-- Subject: Unit named.service has failed</div>
<div>-- Defined-By: systemd</div>
<div>-- Support: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel">
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a></div>
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<div>-- Unit named.service has failed.</div>
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<div>-- The result is failed.</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:29 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> systemd[1]: Unit named.service entered failed state.</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:29 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> systemd[1]: named.service failed.</div>
<div>Nov 26 20:52:29 <a href="http://dnsdf.isnlab.in">dnsdf.isnlab.in</a> polkitd[2124]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2119:1791615 (system bus name :1.54, object path /org/freedeskto</div>
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