My secondary keeps crashing

I start my main DNS

Then start my secondary ...

Ok so far so good but when I try to close down my secondary manually the process fails...


Now I ran

Queries to see if I can resolve the ip and domain that I have set up it works fine did any one ever encounter such a situation ..
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yikes. Please get in the habit of giving at least your OS type and what name server you're running. Pref, you give full versions too...

Off the top of my head: I'm using RH Linux 8, and bind. Mine choked when I try to stop it because i forgot local[on the box] firewall rules to allow 127.0.0.1 communication -- bind shuts down using the bind control that communicates to the server...

-c

The linux redhat I am using is 7.3 .. and the bind itself was packaged with it .. already..


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...do you have iptables on and rules or policies that would prevent connex to/from 127.0.0.1? If...

/etc/init.d/named stop

gives you "[failed]" then first guess is the ndc (in usr/sbin/ I think) cannot make a connection to the nameserver.

Also make sure you named.conf (in /etc/ usually) is listening on 127.0.0.1. I tightened mine up to only listen on one IP on a multi-home box and forgot to tell it to listen on 127.0.0.1 for ndc connections...

If all that is ok, post again.. there's more with 'keys' that ndc and bind use to verify each other and Ican't "reach" my box right now to look at my config..

-c

I will check that file first thing in the morning ...it is usually the shutting off that fails ..it usually starts fine.....

(It in thie scenario refers to the secondary .. name server instance.)

Are ya saying that it has to be .. set to 127.0.0.1 and not actually 127.0.0.2 .. ok let me see...