On Dec 31, 2010, at 6:05 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > I have just installed the macports version of Bind 9 and am trying to get > named to run... > > The install apparently finishes with zero problems:
. . . > But I find nothing in a PS indicating that bind or named is running and dig > (from another host) returns: > -----------------------<cut here>------------------ > dig @shianbrae.mcgillsociety.org mcgillsociety.org > > ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @shianbrae.mcgillsociety.org mcgillsociety.org > ; (1 server found) > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch > ;; res_nsend to server shianbrae.mcgillsociety.org 98.140.106.68: Connection > refused > -----------------------<cut here>------------------ > > What am I missing? Duh.... found it... looking in the not-relevant log file ... Buried in /var/log/system.log ... named[43117]: none:0: open: /opt/local/etc/named.conf: file not found named[43117]: loading configuration: file not found Double DUH.... cd /opt/local/etc more named.conf named.conf: Too many levels of symbolic links ln -s named.conf 4 lrwxr--r-- 1 root admin 10 Dec 31 18:26 named.conf -> named.conf I created the link backwards. ... Must be, to late in the day ... time to go party ... too many dumb errors! T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.5 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.5 # Mac mini Core Duo [1.66 Ghz - 2 GB 667]OS X 10.6.5 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11 # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV6-7) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
