Fedora Core 5 - not updating DNS/web

Hi there,

I'm experimenting with FC5 as a host for ISP config. I've gone to FC5 because the Fedora folks have done a decent job of integrating Xen and support the cluster tools (GFS). I ultimately want to build a cluster of Xen hosts to support fail over and have tried many other distros without much luck...

Anyhow; I hacked the dist.txt file and made a new entry for FC5 to skip the checks it was doing and it all now seems to have installed and the Web UI is running. I can do the things I'd done previously with it under SuSE except that it doesn't actually seem to have created the DNS zone files for the domains I create, modified the named.conf (chrooted Bind) or added anything to the virtual hosts.

It sounds like a permissions problem, but ISPConfig seems to be runnign as root. I've looked for logs around the place, but haven't found anything that might give me a clue about the problem. Can someone pleae point me at a log file or debug setting that might let me know what's not working?

I have SELINUX off, but it wasn't complaining about modifying files anyway...

Thanks!

Tony

 

What's in your named.conf now?
What happens if you start or restart BIND manually? Anything in the log files (in /var/log)?

 

Hi there,

named.conf (from the chroot directory):

[root@bleem etc]# cat named.conf
//
// named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver
//

options {
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;
};

//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};

zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};

zone "localdomain" IN {
type master;
file "localdomain.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.ip6.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.broadcast";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.zero";
allow-update { none; };
};

include "/etc/rndc.key";
;
From /var/log/messages on a restart:

Mar 26 20:29:58 bleem named[1671]: shutting down: flushing changes
Mar 26 20:29:58 bleem named[1671]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953
Mar 26 20:29:58 bleem named[1671]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
Mar 26 20:29:58 bleem named[1671]: no longer listening on 203.0.153.230#53
Mar 26 20:29:58 bleem named[1671]: exiting
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: starting BIND 9.3.2 -u named -t /var/named/chroot
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 203.0.153.230#53
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: zone 255.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: zone 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: zone localdomain/IN: loaded serial 42
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42
Mar 26 20:30:01 bleem named[12982]: running

 

Thanks for the quick responses; you need a weekend sometime though! You're correct that the paths are wrong in those settings, but setting them right has a couple of issues:

1) It still doesn't update the named config. I am, however seeing the following in the http log under /root/ispconfig/httpd/logs:

df: `/var/named/chroot/proc': Permission denied

which I trust has something to do with this as it happens when I try to commit a change to the DNS.

2) The Zonefiles Dir setting doesn't want to be changed in Server->Settings->DNS and stays at /etc/bind. As mine is chrooted, It doesn't like this and is, I expect, part of the problem...

Again; my thanks for your promptness with this!

Many thanks,

Tony

 

No errors; I got through the errors which were related to things not being installed, but the last install was clean. I didn't insert anything into the database manually, but did have to run the install process a few times while I figured out which requirements wheren't installed.

I appreciate your time on this; I know I'm on an unsupported platform and shouldn't expect anything !

Thanks,

Tony

 

More on this; I looked at the other thread with dns issues and peeked into the log file. I saw:
27.03.2006 - 17:34:56 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_system.lib.php, Line 696: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart &> /dev/null
27.03.2006 - 17:34:56 => WARN - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_system.lib.php, Line 696: WARNING: could not /etc/rc.d/init.d/ restart &> /dev/null


So it's having issues restarting, but isn't modifying the files anyway.

Tony

 

Have a look at post #7 in this thread: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3359