On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:45:17PM -0500, Jamie wrote:
> It required OpenSSL 0.9e or higher which I was able to get to install
> with "make; make install". Then I continued with another attempt at
> BIND. I finally finished with the installation but now I can't seem to
> find a way to confirm that BIND is properly installed and running. When
> I start it, it does not report the version as the docs seem to indicate
> it should. Also, running Top doesn't show anything like BIND or named or
> anything else that reasonably indicates that I've succeeded in starting
> it. Maybe I'm not starting it correctly. Can someone please provide me
> with the official syntax?
The process you want to see is 'named'. It won't start up
automatically when you install the Bind 9 port -- you'll have to start
it yourself from the command line, and arrange for it to be restarted
automatically on reboot.
To start bind by hand (as root):
# /usr/local/sbin/named -c /etc/named/named.conf -u bind
To see if it's running, as well as checking in the process table:
% ps -axwww | grep named
100 ?? Is 0:40.24 /usr/local/sbin/named -c /etc/namedb/named.conf -u bind
you can check for processes listening on port 53:
% sockstat | grep :53
bind named 100 4 udp4 81.2.69.218:53 *:*
bind named 100 5 tcp4 81.2.69.218:53 *:*
bind named 100 6 udp4 127.0.0.1:53 *:*
bind named 100 7 tcp4 127.0.0.1:53 *:*
or
% netstat -an | grep '\.53'
tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.53 *.* LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 81.2.69.218.53 *.* LISTEN
udp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.53 *.*
udp4 0 0 81.2.69.218.53 *.*
Bind 9 is fairly picky about the syntax of it's configuration and zone
files. If it finds a problem it will generally log an explanation to
/var/log/messages and then silently quit. You'll need to make sure
that you have corrected any errors before it will start properly. A
particularly problematic thing is the $TTL record that seems to be
required in all zone files nowadays.
Another gotcha that may catch you on FreeBSD is that Bind 9 doesn't
understand the '-g' flag as used by default with the system supplied
Bind 8. You'll need something like this in /etc/rc.conf in order to
startup Bind 9 automatically on boot up:
named_enable="YES"
named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf -u bind"
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
Cheers,
Matthew
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