I have no idea how things work on Windows, but I doubt "directory" is optional.
----- Original Message ----- From: Joanne Homier [mailto:joanne.hom...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:30 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org <bind-users@lists.isc.org> Subject: Having trouble setting up BIND 9.9.2-P2 on Win XP PRO SP3, won't start I installed bind using the default settings in the installer. I successfully generated a rndc.key file. I needed to populate the etc folder, so I downloaded the Ubuntu version of bind and extracted the contents of /etc and put them in Windows version of etc. I went through the files one by one and replaced Linux paths with Windows paths. So bind starts then immediately quits. The error report is below. I have included my config files. I am using bind only as a recursive revolver as my ISP DNS servers are super slow and they do DNS hijacking. I don't want to use any other DNS server other than the one running on my machine. I want to run my own DNS server for fun. So what could be wrong, what did I miss. Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7022 Date: 3/26/2013 Time: 5:30:16 PM User: N/A Computer: MOM Description: The ISC BIND service hung on starting. named.conf: include "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.options"; include "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.local"; include "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.default-zones"; named.conf.options: Note that I commented out the /var/cache because I thought we don't need that on Windows or am I wrong. // options { // directory "/var/cache/bind"; dnssec-validation auto; auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035 listen-on-v6 { any; }; }; named.conf.default-zones: // prime the server with knowledge of the root servers zone "." { type hint; file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.root"; }; // be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for // broadcast zones as per RFC 1912 zone "localhost" { type master; file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.local"; }; zone "127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.127"; }; zone "0.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.0"; }; zone "255.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.255"; }; -- http://namiwalks.nami.org/joannehomier _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
