On 2020-07-06, <ken.hendrick...@l3harris.com> <ken.hendrick...@l3harris.com> wrote: > The nsd daemon will not start at boot time. > It will start and run by hand later. > > There is NOTHING in the logs indicating what the failure was. > In fact, the logs indicate that everything is OK, and nsd did start! > Jul 5 22:32:32 Soekris2 nsd[51297]: nsd starting (NSD 4.2.4) > Jul 5 22:32:32 Soekris2 nsd[16350]: zone 10.24.172.in-addr.arpa read with > success > Jul 5 22:32:33 Soekris2 nsd[16350]: zone 20.24.172.in-addr.arpa read with > success > Jul 5 22:32:33 Soekris2 nsd[16350]: zone 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa read with > success > Jul 5 22:32:33 Soekris2 nsd[16350]: zone FakeZone.com read with success > Jul 5 22:32:33 Soekris2 nsd[16350]: nsd started (NSD 4.2.4), pid 52261
So it exited at some point after startup. Bump up the logging, e.g. try adding "verbosity: 3" to the server: section of nsd.conf, see if anything more is logged.
