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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The next Event Log entry on my system immediately after "using 1 UDP listener per interface" is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">loading configuration from 'C:\BIND\etc\named.conf'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">(because that's my BIND installation folder obviously).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">If I intentionally make a typo in any of my config files (eg named.conf, named.conf.options etc) and try and start the ISC BIND service I get:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Windows could not start the ISC BIND service on local computer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">And that’s exactly the same error message that you’re getting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Have you tried dropping to a command prompt and then running "named-checkconf" from within the "bin" subfolder of your BIND installation folder? That will tell you if it detects an error in any of
your configuration files. I know you may not have changed them between upgrading from 9.16.12 to 9.16.18, but maybe there's something in there that BIND 9.16.12 was OK with but which 9.16.18 is not happy.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">For example if I intentionally add a simple 'x' at the very end of my named.conf and then run C:\BIND\bin\named-checkconf I get:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">C:\BIND\bin>named-checkconf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">C:\BIND\etc\named.conf:8: unknown option 'x'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">C:\BIND\etc\named.conf:8: unexpected token near end of file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Richard.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> bind-users <bind-users-bounces@lists.isc.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter via bind-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 18 June 2021 5:49 pm<br>
<b>To:</b> bind-users@lists.isc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Windows support has been discontinued in BIND 9.17+ (Was: Important: A significant flaw is present in June BIND releases 9.16.17 and 9.17.14)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It shows 17 information with the last showing "using 1 UDP listener per interface" maybe it don't like my intel VLAN's?<o:p></o:p></p>
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