<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Hi, you should start by describing your environment and sending here a redacted (with named-checkconf -px) config file.<div><br></div><div>There’s a little help you can get with just few lines from the log. It could be chroot, it could be AppArmor, it could be selinux, it could be permissions higher in the tree, it could be that you are checking the file on a different server than bind is running. All these things are possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Ondrej<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div>Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Him)<div><br></div><div>My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 23. 9. 2025, at 3:24, Herman Brule via bind-users <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi,</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I don't found how check
this. And how disable this?<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Herman Jacques Roger BRULE <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:contact@herman-brule.com"><contact@herman-brule.com></a>
Main developer of Supercopier/Ultracopier/CatchChallenger, server management
IT, OS, technologies, research & development, security and business department</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/22/25 21:00, Mark Andrews wrote:<br>
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If you are running chroot then you need the files in the chroot
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<blockquote type="cite">On 22 Sep 2025, at 22:07, Herman Brule
via bind-users <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org"><bind-users@lists.isc.org></a> wrote:<br>
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<p> <span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.792 set maximum open files to
18446744073709551615: success</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.792 looking for GeoIP2 databases in
'/usr/share/geoip'</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.796 unable to open GeoIP2 database
'/usr/share/geoip/GeoIP2-Country.mmdb' (status 1)</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.800 unable to open GeoIP2 database
'/usr/share/geoip/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb' (status 1)</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.800 unable to open GeoIP2 database
'/usr/share/geoip/GeoIP2-City.mmdb' (status 1)</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.800 unable to open GeoIP2 database
'/usr/share/geoip/GeoLite2-City.mmdb' (status 1)</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.800 unable to open GeoIP2 database
'/usr/share/geoip/GeoIP2-ASN.mmdb' (status 1)</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.800 unable to open GeoIP2 database
'/usr/share/geoip/GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb' (status 1)</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.800 unable to open GeoIP2 database
'/usr/share/geoip/GeoIP2-ISP.mmdb' (status 1)</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.800 unable to open GeoIP2 database
'/usr/share/geoip/GeoIP2-Domain.mmdb' (status 1)</span></span></p>
<p> <span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">root@vps-50e17238:~#
ls -l /usr/share/geoip/GeoIP2-Country.mmdb</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><br>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">-rw-r--r--
1 bind bind 9791801 Sep 14 20:08
/usr/share/geoip/GeoIP2-Country.mmdb</span></span></p>
<p>exist and it's acesible via unix user.</p>
<p>and then with:</p>
<p> <span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">22-Sep-2025
12:03:58.812 /etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones:2: no
GeoIP2 database installed which can answer queries of
type 'country'</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-family:monospace">What I can do? any kind
of chroot?<br>
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