Re: [Vserver] Running bind 9.2.4 on Debian Sarge without caps

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 15:52, Holger Nowak wrote:
> Hello,
> I know that running bind in a vserver guest is a bit problematic, so I
> decided to recompile Bind with linux-caps disabled according to
> http://linux-vserver.org/Problematic_Programs#Bind9_on_Debian_GNU.2FLinux_W
>oody_.283.0.29_and_Sarge_.283.1.29 and
> http://www.newt.com/debian/acornHOWTO/ (Section bind9)
>
> But I couldn't start named properly. No error messages neither on promt nor
> on syslog occur but the name server isn't running. If I want to stop the
> service I receive the well known message:
>
> Stopping domain name service: namedrndc: connect failed: connection refused

IIRC rndc wants to connect to localhost, which of course is not possible if
this resolves to the loopback interface

A line like

  <YOUR VSERVERS IP> <VSERVER HOSTNAME> localhost

in /etc/hosts should fix that.

hth
peter.

> But I don't think it is a permission problem, since running named in
> foreground resulting in
>
> mystery:/etc/bind# named -g -p 53
> Oct 24 13:50:14.675 starting BIND 9.2.4 -g -p 53
> Oct 24 13:50:14.676 using 1 CPU
> Oct 24 13:50:14.678 loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> strace gives no more information, so I think I've made some mistake
> configuring the listening server. The crucial file where named is stop is
> the name.conf.options
>
> mystery:/etc/bind# cat named.conf.options
> options {
>
> // Avoids listening on 127.0.0.1.
> listen-on {
> 195.227.242.154;
> };
>
> auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035
>
> };
>
> controls {
> inet 195.227.242.154 allow {
> 195.227.242.154;
> };
> };
>
> The one and only IP is 195.227.242.154 which is a virtual IP on eth0:5 on
> the host system. The host system is running bind too but I don't listen to
> the given IP.
>
> If I disable the listen directive I get the following message from named:
>
> mystery:/etc/bind# named -g -p 53
> Oct 24 13:56:53.970 starting BIND 9.2.4 -g -p 53
> Oct 24 13:56:53.970 using 1 CPU
> Oct 24 13:56:53.973 loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
> Oct 24 13:56:53.973 no IPv6 interfaces found
> Oct 24 13:56:53.973 listening on IPv4 interface eth0:5, 195.227.242.154#53
> Oct 24 13:56:53.975 peer.c:87: REQUIRE(*list != ((void *)0)) failed
> Oct 24 13:56:53.975 exiting (due to assertion failure)
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> I've been at my wits' end and I hope some could help me.
>
> Best regards,
> Holger
>
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