[CLUE-Tech] Frustrated with BIND9

[Chris Schock]

Ahh, someone else ran into the same problem I had. Fedora tries to run
named in a chroot jail, but evidentally the QC slipped up here because
it's broken. Try running named without the jail and your problems will
likely disappear. Mine did.

Of course, the prudent thing would be to fix the permissions so that the
chroot jail worked correctly but I just wanted it to work and wasn't
overly concerned with security.

Hopefully this was fixed in FC2.

> While I'm not new to DNS, I am new to administering BIND.  Naturally, I'm
> having some trouble with
> my first configuration.  I don't mind fixing this myself, as long as I can
> get some logs out of
> named.  Unfortunately, I cannot get any logging output no matter what I
> try.  Here is the relevant
> config settings (/etc/named.conf) -- in desperation, I've thrown just
> about everything into this
> to no avail:
>
> logging {
>         channel debug_log {
>                 file "/var/log/named/named.log" versions 5 size 10m;
>                 print-time yes;
>                 print-category yes;
>                 print-severity yes;
>                 severity info;
>         };
>         category debug_cat {
>                 debug_log;
>                 general;
>                 database;
>                 security;
>                 config;
>                 resolver;
>                 xfer-in;
>                 xfer-out;
>                 notify;
>                 client;
>                 unmatched;
>                 network;
>                 update;
>                 queries;
>                 dispatch;
>                 dnssec;
>                 lame-servers;
>         };
> };
>
> Version (running on Red Hat Fedora Core 1):
> BIND 9.2.2-P3
>
> And the permissions of that log file path:
> [root at shinji log]# ls -latr
> drwxr-xr-x    2 named    named        4096 Jun 24 10:41 named
> (snipped)
>
> I've set the severity to everything between debug 1 and 10, and info, as
> you see above.  I've
> tried to start the daemon in debug mode (-d 10, and -d 3).  I've run every
> variation of the rndc
> tool to activate logging.  While all these commands and configs are
> accepted without complaint, I
> still have no logging.  All I want is to troubleshoot my configuration!
>
> I have run named-checkconf, no errors.  I have run named-checkzone on all
> my zones and each
> reports OK.
>
> Assuming I have everything set correctly based on my extensive reading of
> the man pages and the
> bind9.net website, how can I get logging output from BIND?  Is this some
> kind of bug, or is there
> some arcane spell I have to cast on named to make it show output (becuase
> I have done all I can
> based on the documenation)?  Thanks all!
>
> =====
> William Kimball, Jr.
> "Programming is an art form that fights back!"  =)
>
>
>
>
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