Hi Folks, not sure if this is a bug or a feature but had been scratching my head for months now running BIND on Fedora22-24 and all the time I did a reboot BIND didn’t came up and I needed to restart the process to get it running. After some googling around I realized that I am not alone with this but there has never been a clear solution beside some proposals to change the sequence of IPv4/IPv6 entries within ifcfg which didn’t work for me.
Finally I found a dependency but I am still not sure where the root course is
related to, as it depends on if empty-zones-enable is set to yes/no?
named -v
BIND 9.10.4-P2-RedHat-9.10.4-1.P2.fc24
### bootup with: empty-zones-enable no;
[root@ns1 ~]# systemctl status named-chroot.service
● named-chroot.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-chroot.service; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-08-06 11:08:22 CEST; 16s ago
Process: 1084 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot
$OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 1080 ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c if [ ! "$DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING" ==
"yes" ]; then /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -t /var/named/chroot -z
/etc/named.conf; else echo "Checking of zone files is disabled"; fi (c
Main PID: 1086 (named)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 512)
CGroup: /system.slice/named-chroot.service
└─1086 /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net named[1086]: listening on IPv6 interface lo,
::1#53
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net named[1086]: listening on IPv6 interface
eth0, 2001:67c:21b0:4029:193:34:29:244#53
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net named[1086]: could not listen on UDP socket:
address not available
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net named[1086]: creating IPv6 interface eth0
failed; interface ignored
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net named[1086]: generating session key for
dynamic DNS
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net named[1086]: sizing zone task pool based on
62 zones
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net named[1086]: using built-in root key for view
_default
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net named[1086]: set up managed keys zone for
view _default, file '/var/named/dynamic/managed-keys.bind'
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net named[1086]: command channel listening on
127.0.0.1#953
Aug 06 11:08:22 ns1.f1-online.net systemd[1]: Started Berkeley Internet Name
Domain (DNS).
[root@ns1 ~]# systemctl stop named-chroot.service
[root@ns1 ~]# systemctl start named-chroot.service
[root@ns1 ~]# systemctl status named-chroot.service
● named-chroot.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-chroot.service; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-08-06 11:08:42 CEST; 803ms ago
Process: 1197 ExecStop=/bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/rndc stop > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
/bin/kill -TERM $MAINPID (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 1287 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot
$OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 1284 ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c if [ ! "$DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING" ==
"yes" ]; then /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -t /var/named/chroot -z
/etc/named.conf; else echo "Checking of zone files is disabled"; fi (c
Main PID: 1289 (named)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 512)
CGroup: /system.slice/named-chroot.service
└─1289 /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net named[1289]: listening on IPv4 interface lo,
127.0.0.1#53
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net named[1289]: listening on IPv4 interface
eth0, 193.34.29.244#53
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net named[1289]: listening on IPv6 interface lo,
::1#53
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net named[1289]: listening on IPv6 interface
eth0, 2001:67c:21b0:4029:193:34:29:244#53
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net named[1289]: generating session key for
dynamic DNS
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net named[1289]: sizing zone task pool based on
62 zones
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net named[1289]: using built-in root key for view
_default
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net named[1289]: set up managed keys zone for
view _default, file '/var/named/dynamic/managed-keys.bind'
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net named[1289]: command channel listening on
127.0.0.1#953
Aug 06 11:08:42 ns1.f1-online.net systemd[1]: Started Berkeley Internet Name
Domain (DNS).
### bootup with: empty-zones-enable yes;
[root@ns0 ~]# systemctl status named-chroot.service
● named-chroot.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-chroot.service; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-08-06 11:10:58 CEST; 7s ago
Process: 1083 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot
$OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 1080 ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c if [ ! "$DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING" ==
"yes" ]; then /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -t /var/named/chroot -z
/etc/named.conf; else echo "Checking of zone files is disabled"; fi (c
Main PID: 1086 (named)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 512)
CGroup: /system.slice/named-chroot.service
└─1086 /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net named[1086]: automatic empty zone:
1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net named[1086]: automatic empty zone:
D.F.IP6.ARPA
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net named[1086]: automatic empty zone:
8.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net named[1086]: automatic empty zone:
9.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net named[1086]: automatic empty zone:
A.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net named[1086]: automatic empty zone:
B.E.F.IP6.ARPA
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net named[1086]: automatic empty zone:
8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.IP6.ARPA
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net named[1086]: automatic empty zone:
EMPTY.AS112.ARPA
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net named[1086]: command channel listening on
127.0.0.1#953
Aug 06 11:10:58 ns0.f1-online.net systemd[1]: Started Berkeley Internet Name
Domain (DNS).
Any clue?
Thank you,
Wolfgang Riedel
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