Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)

[David Gillies <daveg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jared Pritchard wrote:
> I assume just by running it...?
> When I do it reports nothing.  =)
>
> I'm not confident/experienced enough to make 'major' changes like
> updating named, because this server is very critical to our livelihood.
> I can't risk taking it offline. =(

on my server, named logs all its output to /var/log/messages

If you run 'grep named /var/log/messages', what does it come back with?

> Any other thoughts as to why it just suddenly started doing this without
> any apparent reason, or anything I can do to fix it?
> Also, I can't manage to figure out how to find its distribution.
> It's not in /etc/issue, and wasn't installed as a package (ie. rpm
> doesn't list it)

try running rpm -q bind. What does it come back with? The dns server 
package under Redhat linux is called bind.

> It must be some sort of configuration error because it still does it
> after a reboot (mind you, I haven't tried a cold boot) - but we made

If a warm reboot doesn't work, then a cold boot isn't going to do 
anything for you under linux unless it was specifically a hardware issue.