Bug#500277: bind9 doesn't start

[Shams Fantar]

LaMont Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:19:06PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote:
>   
>> If I want to stop or to restart bind9, I can't by default. I get this 
>> message :
>> Stopping domain name service...: bindrndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: 
>> connection refused
>>  failed!
>> Starting domain name service...: bind failed!
>> So that bind9 starts, I have to kill the "named" process before, and after I 
>> can do "/etc/init.d/apache2 start".
>> I tried some solutions, and so it's the only solution. Perhaps, this is a 
>> bug. I think...
>>     
>
> Please send me a copy of your named configuration - it appears that you
> have configured BIND in a way that prevents rndc from working - I'd love
> do better document the ways that people break it.
>
> thanks,
> lamont
>
>   

Here are the two files you need in attachment.

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// This is the primary configuration file for the BIND DNS server named.
//
// Please read /usr/share/doc/bind9/README.Debian.gz for information on the 
// structure of BIND configuration files in Debian, *BEFORE* you customize 
// this configuration file.
//
// If you are just adding zones, please do that in /etc/bind/named.conf.local

include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options";

#options {
#       pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
#}

#key "rndc-key" {
#    algorithm hmac-md5;
#    secret "DJ/kgU72Zwe2ucsgl2Gf4Q==;
#}

// prime the server with knowledge of the root servers 

zone "." {
        type hint;
                file "/etc/bind/db.root";
};


// be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for
// broadcast zones as per RFC 1912

zone "localhost" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.local";
};

zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.127";
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.0";
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.255";
};

// zone "com" { type delegation-only; };
// zone "net" { type delegation-only; };

// From the release notes:
//  Because many of our users are uncomfortable receiving undelegated answers
//  from root or top level domains, other than a few for whom that behaviour
//  has been trusted and expected for quite some length of time, we have now
//  introduced the "root-delegations-only" feature which applies delegation-only
//  logic to all top level domains, and to the root domain.  An exception list
//  should be specified, including "MUSEUM" and "DE", and any other top level
//  domains from whom undelegated responses are expected and trusted.
// root-delegation-only exclude { "DE"; "MUSEUM"; };

include "/etc/bind/named.conf.local";

rndc.key
Description: application/pgp-keys