Article:		Implementing BIND on Mac OS X
Subject:		getting error w/directions
Date:		2003-05-22 15:24:25
From:		anonymous2
Response to: getting error w/directions
I got this same set of errors as well. Reading from the ISC web site ( http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html ): OS X 10.1.4 (Darwin 5.4) reports errors like "fcntl(3, F_SETFL, 4): Operation not supported by device". This is due to a bug in "/dev/random" and impacts the server's DNSSEC support. I'm running 10.2.6 (Darwin Kernel Version 6.5) and I still see it. How did the author get it to work??

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• getting error w/directions
  2003-12-03 21:43:40  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Hi,
  I seem to be getting some of the errors from above:
  
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: starting BIND 9.2.3 -c /etc/named.conf
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: using 1 CPU
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: listening on IPv4 interface lo0, 127.0.0.1#53
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: listening on IPv4 interface en1, 10.0.1.4#53
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: none:0: open: /usr/local/bind9/etc/rndc.key: file not found
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: /etc/named.conf:7: couldn't install keys for command channel 127.0.0.1#54: file not found
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: /etc/named.conf:7: couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#54: file not found
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: couldn't open pid file '/usr/local/bind9/var/run/named.pid': No such file or directory
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
  
  I added the var/run directories under /usr/local/bind9 and it starts up fine, but still no luck with the etc/rndc.key file. Can you explain these problems? Author?
  
  Thanks for the great article!
• getting error w/directions
  2003-12-04 05:23:57  Jason Deraleau | [View]
  
  
  Here: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/17133
  
  You'll find a post which discusses what rndc does and why you're seeing that error.
• getting error w/directions
  2003-12-04 18:41:40  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Hi! Thanks for the quick response. I now understand the rndc error. As for the other error:
  
  ==========
  
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: couldn't open pid file '/usr/local/bind9/var/run/named.pid': No such file or directory
  Dec 3 21:40:52 localhost named[527]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
  
  ===========
  
  Why is it trying to put the pid file under the install directory. I thought the default configuration for the named.pid was in /var/run?
  
  Did I miss something in the compilation?
  
  Any input is greatly appreciated.
  
  Thanks!
  Paolo
• getting error w/directions
  2004-04-15 01:37:57  Vyacheslav [View]
  
  
  Create folder:
  mkdir /var/pid/

• getting error w/directions
  2003-07-24 04:36:14  atoms [View]
  
  
  I had the same problem. Uncommenting:
  
  controls {
  unix "/var/run/ndc" perm 0600 owner 0 group 0;
  inet 127.0.0.1 port 54 allow {any; };
  };
  
  in /etc/named.conf seems to have fixed it. I still see some errors in the system log, but named starts.