Re: Having trouble setting up BIND 9.9.2-P2 on Win XP PRO SP3, won't start
On 3/26/2013 9:40 PM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote: I have no idea how things work on Windows, but I doubt directory is optional. - Original Message - From: Joanne Homier [mailto:joanne.hom...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:30 PM To:bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Having trouble setting up BIND 9.9.2-P2 on Win XP PRO SP3, won't start I installed bind using the default settings in the installer. I successfully generated a rndc.key file. I needed to populate the etc folder, so I downloaded the Ubuntu version of bind and extracted the contents of /etc and put them in Windows version of etc. I went through the files one by one and replaced Linux paths with Windows paths. So bind starts then immediately quits. The error report is below. I have included my config files. I am using bind only as a recursive revolver as my ISP DNS servers are super slow and they do DNS hijacking. I don't want to use any other DNS server other than the one running on my machine. I want to run my own DNS server for fun. So what could be wrong, what did I miss. named.conf: include C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.options; include C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.local; include C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.default-zones; My named.conf was just fine. At least for the current version I didn't need to set the dir path, it appears to be auto set. Bind was failing to start because of a permissions issue. It couldn't open named.conf and after granting permissions it worked. This Windows machine now has a working resolver and is much faster that other remote DNS servers. Normally I only use Ubuntu and bind setup is much easier there. ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
Having trouble setting up BIND 9.9.2-P2 on Win XP PRO SP3, won't start
I installed bind using the default settings in the
installer. I successfully generated a rndc.key file. I
needed to populate the etc folder, so I downloaded the
Ubuntu version of bind and extracted the contents of /etc
and put them in Windows version of etc. I went through
the files one by one and replaced Linux paths with Windows
paths. So bind starts then immediately quits. The error
report is below. I have included my config files. I am
using bind only as a recursive revolver as my ISP DNS
servers are super slow and they do DNS hijacking. I don't
want to use any other DNS server other than the one
running on my machine. I want to run my own DNS server
for fun. So what could be wrong, what did I miss.
Event Type:Error
Event Source:Service Control Manager
Event Category:None
Event ID:7022
Date:3/26/2013
Time:5:30:16 PM
User:N/A
Computer:MOM
Description:
The ISC BIND service hung on starting.
named.conf:
include C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.options;
include C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.local;
include
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.default-zones;
named.conf.options: Note that I commented out the
/var/cache because I thought we don't need that on Windows
or am I wrong.
// options {
//directory /var/cache/bind;
dnssec-validation auto;
auth-nxdomain no;# conform to RFC1035
listen-on-v6 { any; };
};
named.conf.default-zones:
// prime the server with knowledge of the root servers
zone . {
type hint;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.root;
};
// be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse
zones, and for
// broadcast zones as per RFC 1912
zone localhost {
type master;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.local;
};
zone 127.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.127;
};
zone 0.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.0;
};
zone 255.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.255;
};
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Re: Having trouble setting up BIND 9.9.2-P2 on Win XP PRO SP3, won't start
I have no idea how things work on Windows, but I doubt directory is optional.
- Original Message -
From: Joanne Homier [mailto:joanne.hom...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:30 PM
To: bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org
Subject: Having trouble setting up BIND 9.9.2-P2 on Win XP PRO SP3, won't start
I installed bind using the default settings in the
installer. I successfully generated a rndc.key file. I
needed to populate the etc folder, so I downloaded the
Ubuntu version of bind and extracted the contents of /etc
and put them in Windows version of etc. I went through
the files one by one and replaced Linux paths with Windows
paths. So bind starts then immediately quits. The error
report is below. I have included my config files. I am
using bind only as a recursive revolver as my ISP DNS
servers are super slow and they do DNS hijacking. I don't
want to use any other DNS server other than the one
running on my machine. I want to run my own DNS server
for fun. So what could be wrong, what did I miss.
Event Type:Error
Event Source:Service Control Manager
Event Category:None
Event ID:7022
Date:3/26/2013
Time:5:30:16 PM
User:N/A
Computer:MOM
Description:
The ISC BIND service hung on starting.
named.conf:
include C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.options;
include C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.local;
include
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\named.conf.default-zones;
named.conf.options: Note that I commented out the
/var/cache because I thought we don't need that on Windows
or am I wrong.
// options {
//directory /var/cache/bind;
dnssec-validation auto;
auth-nxdomain no;# conform to RFC1035
listen-on-v6 { any; };
};
named.conf.default-zones:
// prime the server with knowledge of the root servers
zone . {
type hint;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.root;
};
// be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse
zones, and for
// broadcast zones as per RFC 1912
zone localhost {
type master;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.local;
};
zone 127.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.127;
};
zone 0.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.0;
};
zone 255.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\etc\db.255;
};
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