Unable to start named

[woody127]

I have just set up a DNS Master Server but when I try to start the named deamon from root
(# /sbin/init.d/named start) the process fails with the error message in syslog.log
Nov 19 02:44:33 bonn named[2901]: starting BIND 9.3.2
Nov 19 02:44:33 bonn named[2901]: found 4 CPUs, using 4 worker threads
Nov 19 02:44:33 bonn named[2901]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Nov 19 02:44:33 bonn named[2901]: listening on IPv4 interface lan0:1, 155.208.66
.209#53
Nov 19 02:44:33 bonn named[2901]: listening on IPv4 interface lan0, 128.10.7.1#5
3
Nov 19 02:44:33 bonn named[2901]: listening on IPv4 interface lo0, 127.0.0.1#53
Nov 19 02:44:33 bonn named[2901]: loading configuration: empty label
Nov 19 02:44:33 bonn named[2901]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Any ideas please??

[Kapil Jha]

does your named.conf polulated properly.

BR,
Kapil+

[woody127]

I have just checked named.conf and that has populated correctly with the IP and FQDN

[woody127]

Could it be that my HBA has piled in??????

[Kapil Jha]

well not sure about HBA, but your ethernet card are working.

BR,
Kapil+

[woody127]

I can ping out etc by IP to other domains within the network etc so the NIC Cards are working it is just that named is not initialising. I have tried a reboot and a full power down /Up.

[Steven Schweda]

> I have just checked named.conf [...]

That's nice, but "named" dosn't seem to like
something about it (or something it drags
in):

> [...] loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'

> [...] loading configuration: empty label

and we can't see any of it.

[woody127]

I have now setup another machine as my DNS Master and everything works OK. This points to a specific problem with the original machine

[woody127]

It seems to be a hardware problem rather tha a configuration problem. Many thanks for the advice