the service named is currently down.

[bg32am]

Hi,

I've just reboot my vps and all my websites are down now and i've this message:

This message has been automatically generated notifying you that the service named is currently down.

try to restart named but i can't , could you please help me .

Thanks

 

[Zhenyapan]

restart if from SSH console, check error message, check logs.

 

[bg32am]

restart if from SSH console, check error message, check logs.

[root@ns ~]# systemctl status named -l

● named.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)

Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/named.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)

Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-07-26 21:36:06 +0430; 9s ago

Process: 11158 ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c if [ ! "$DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING" == "yes" ]; then /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -z "$NAMEDCONF"; else echo "Checking of zone files is disabled"; fi (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

 

[Zhenyapan]

so replace broken NS records to default server's, or add appropriate A records, and modify serial number in zonefile, then restart named again.
looks like you pointed domain to own NSs (glue records) but forgot to create appropriate A-records for it.

 

[bg32am]

I've got this message when try to fix zone :

Unable to save dns zone: named-checkzone returned:

 

[Zhenyapan]

chow me content of this .db file
or add A-records for NSs
ns1 14400 IN A xxx.xx.xx.xx
ns2 14400 IN A xxx.xx.xx.xx

 

[bg32am]

chow me content of this .db file
or add A-records for NSs
ns1 14400 IN A xxx.xx.xx.xx
ns2 14400 IN A xxx.xx.xx.xx

Solved , Thanks a lot

 

[Bahman Niko]

I have the message too in the server:
The service 'named' on server xx.xx.xx is currently down

 

[Richard G]

You might normally best start a new thread as your problem most likely has another cause.

Try using this command and see if there are errors:
named-checkconf

 

[Bahman Niko]

The named-checkconf , didn't show something

 

[Richard G]

See post #2. Check logs.

Also try to restart named, and see if it throws errors and which errors:
service named restart

 

[Bahman Niko]

 

[Zhenyapan]

so run both commands and check details.

 

[Bahman Niko]

 

[Richard G]

And:
journalctl -xe
after restarting named.
And also check the /var/log/messages file for errors.

 

[Bahman Niko]

 

[Richard G]

Oke there you go.

You masked them. But in the output you see that 3 domains do not have any A or AAA records. Most likely that is the cause.

See if those domains still exist, if yes, check their DNS and update as needed.
If not, remove them from DNS.

 

[Richard G]

Also check if you have SELinux enabled, seems there is some authentication issue, might be caused by SELinux.

 

[Bahman Niko]

 

[Richard G]

SElinux is not via systemctl.

Issue this command:
sestatus
then you can see if it's enabled or disabled. If it's disabled it's good.

How about the domains removal or fix I suggested?