Problem with DNS on Ubuntu-Hardy 8.04

Also, my named.conf file looks like this

Shouldn't it look like this?

since it's chrooted to the /var/lib/named directory? I'm basing that on a Bind9 user manual, where it says under Chroot

(from http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch07.html#id2567222)

Have a great day
Patrick.

 

Also doing an ls in the /var/run directory shows nothing by the name of named.pid. It also doesn't show up in the /var/lib/named directory. There is, however, a /var/run/bind directory-- which is empty.

So, in short, I don't have a named.pid file, at least not that I can find. Could that be part of the problem?

Have a great day And sorry for all of the posts. I'm just digging around, and when I find (or can't find) something, I post the information here.

Patrick.

 

To be honest, I'm running out of ideas...

 

I may just scrap the entire thing, and start fresh. I'll try it with just "local.lan" for my name and go from there. And, I'll make sure I have the right names (maybe simpler names) on all of my computers.

Another question that you may be able to help me with though is this. I've got a laptop, which isn't going to have a static IP on it. Will BIND be able to cache it's IP address, so that I can just use it's name as well, or will I have to either a) make it a static IP or b) always search for it via IP address? Obviously the first time I try to access it, I'll have to use IP address or something.

Have a great day
Patrick.

 

quote one of author's posts

Just try this:

Code:

chroot bind:bind /etc/bind/named.conf

 

Interesting. chroot bind:bind /etc/bind/named.conf gives me

chroot: cannot change root directory to bind:bind: No such file or directory

That's strange in itself. But, it obviously answers why I'm getting the errors, just not why it's saying that...

Have a great day
Patrick.

 

I think he meant

Code:

[B][COLOR="Red"]chown[/COLOR][/B] bind:bind /etc/bind/named.conf

 

I tried this in PuTTy, and it gave me a new prompt. So, I'm assuming that it was successful. However, trying /etc/init.d/bind9 start fails again. The curious thing is, if I go into '/var/log/syslog' I don't have anything about bind in there... Only a cron job that seems to keep running every hour. Right now, I'm performing an apt-get upgrade, so I can see if that's what's causing the cron jobs.

Then, I'll restart the computer, relog in as root and see what is going on.

Have a great day
Patrick.

 

Opps.. my mistake. however this fixed the problem with loading configuration, don't it?