BIND failing to start

Hey, I'm just trying to transfer some sites over to a new dedicated server for a friend, and I must admit, DNS is my weak point. So anyways the service "Named" is not running and will not start.

In /var/log/messages I'm getting this:

named[27604]: starting BIND 9.2.4 -u named
named[27604]: using 2 CPUs
named[27604]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
named[27604]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
named[27604]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 12.158.190.140#53
named[27604]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:0, 12.47.45.64#53
named[27604]: zone version.bind/CH: has 0 SOA records
named[27604]: zone version.bind/CH: has no NS records
named[27604]: view.c:347: REQUIRE((&view->references)->refs > 0) failed
named[27604]: exiting (due to assertion failure)
named: named startup failed

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I'm not sure what the error means where it says "failed" or what to do to fix it. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

ok, it kinda fixed itself...

I only did 2 things:

touch /var/run/named/named.pid
/etc/init.d/named -c /etc/named.conf -n 2 -u named

Watching the messages output I see that didn't actually fix it, as it exited with a "fatal error" after that, but it must have knocked something loose because it started up successfully on it's next try. Odd.

Seems like an invalid zone in your /etc/named.conf.

If no one helps earlier, could you perhaps post anything in your named.conf that has 'version.bind' in it ?

kinda same problem

I can't get named to start either. The error message is

named[26942]: /etc/named.conf:2: unknown option 'control'
named[26942]: loading configuration: failure
named[26942]: exiting (due to fatal error)
named: named startup failed
named: named shutdown failed
named[26964]: starting BIND 9.2.4rc6 -u named
named[26964]: using 2 CPUs
named[26964]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
named[26964]: /etc/named.conf:2: unknown option 'control'
named[26964]: loading configuration: failure
named[26964]: exiting (due to fatal error)
named: named startup failed

Any ideas?

*edit*

now I'm getting a different error

named[23123]: starting BIND 9.2.4rc6 -u named
named[23123]: using 2 CPUs
named[23123]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
named[23123]: no IPv6 interfaces found
named[23123]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
named[23123]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 198.87.84.12#53
named[23123]: none:0: open: /etc/rndc.key: permission denied
named[23123]: couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953: permission denied
named[23123]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid': Permission denied
named[23123]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
named: named startup failed

What OS?

What user are you running bind as?

is there a file at:

/var/run/named/named.pid

Can you post the output of:

ls -al /var/run/named

Maybe that will help us figure it out.

Jeff

Hi,

I exactly had the same error with bwochinski.

If your OS is Fedora3, this may fix your problem.
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=70