BIND9 restart fail

Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by Zippy, Dec 18, 2014.

  1. Zippy

    Zippy Member

    Hello everyone,

    I am running ISPConfig3 on Debian Wheezy and after a recent update I got the dread - cannot start bind9 failure.

    I have searched and searched and searched and looked and looked and looked for the issue and I am finally reaching out for some help!

    My syslog shows no errors which is also strange!

    Anyone have any insight into this issue?

    Code:
    Setting up bind9 (1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u3) ...
    [FAIL] Starting domain name service...: bind9 failed!
    invoke-rc.d: initscript bind9, action "start" failed.
    dpkg: error processing bind9 (--configure):
     subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     bind9
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
    Setting up bind9 (1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u3) ...
    [FAIL] Starting domain name service...: bind9 failed!
    invoke-rc.d: initscript bind9, action "start" failed.
    dpkg: error processing bind9 (--configure):
     subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     bind9
    
     
  2. Zippy

    Zippy Member

    OK, I did one last search and solved it with the following commands:

    Code:
     apt-get remove --purge bind9
    tasksel install dns-server

    And I am not able to restart and run bind9!!

    So my question is - BIND and BIND9? Why did the failure of BIND9 not affect my ISPConfig3 DNS? If anyone can enlighten this newbie I would appreciate it!



    Thanks
    John
     
    Last edited: Dec 18, 2014

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