i’ve edite my dns zone, i click on “apply zone” and i get:
NDC command failed : rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
if i do “rndc status” i get the same error.
what can i do?
thanks
neorf
Howdy,
How to do this exactly depends on your distro – but I’m curious what you see if you restart BIND using the init scripts, and then look in the logs… perhaps /var/log/messages and/or /var/log/syslog. Do you see any error messages?
-Eric
hm, I’m receiving the same issue. I just cleared my logs, then stopped bind and started it again using init scripts. I get nothing in the logs?
Any other ideas. From what I’ve googled, I see a lot of people talking about permissions issues. This is a new installation so I didn’t make any changes with bind and its config files permissions.
Which distro are you using?
And, what output do you see if you type this:
netstat -an | grep :953
Thanks!
-Eric
Distro Below
root@server1.davidsalazar.com:~
→ cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.2
netstat grep returns nothing.
here is my full netstat
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:20000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 216.245.199.43:80 10.1.0.62:35926 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 216.245.199.43:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 272 216.245.199.43:22 24.243.28.202:61023 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 216.245.199.43:22 24.243.28.202:60539 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 216.245.199.43:3306 24.243.28.202:61729 ESTABLISHED
tcp6 0 0 :::53 :::* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10000 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:20000 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 216.245.199.43:53 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:*
udp6 0 0 :::517 :::*
udp6 0 0 :::518 :::*
udp6 0 0 :::53 :::*
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Yeah, it doesn’t appear to be listening on port 953. Can you post your /etc/bind/named.conf and /etc/bind/named.conf.local files?
Thanks,
-Eric
named.conf
include “/etc/bind/named.conf.options”;
// prime the server with knowledge of the root servers
zone “.” {
type hint;
file “/etc/bind/db.root”;
};
// be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for
// broadcast zones as per RFC 1912
zone “localhost” {
type master;
file “/etc/bind/db.local”;
};
zone “127.in-addr.arpa” {
type master;
file “/etc/bind/db.127”;
};
zone “0.in-addr.arpa” {
type master;
file “/etc/bind/db.0”;
};
zone “255.in-addr.arpa” {
type master;
file “/etc/bind/db.255”;
};
include “/etc/bind/named.conf.local”;
/etc/bind/named.conf.local
//
// Do any local configuration here
//
// Consider adding the 1918 zones here, if they are not used in your
// organization
//include “/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918”;
zone “git.davidsalazar.com” {
type master;
file “/etc/bind/git.davidsalazar.com.hosts”;
allow-transfer {
127.0.0.1;
localnets;
};
};
Blast, I’m sorry, I said the wrong file 
I meant that I wanted to see “/etc/bind/named.conf.options”.
I’m not quite sure what the issue is yet, but I was going to compare what’s in there to what I have, hopefully something will stand out as being the issue!
Thanks,
-Eric
options {
directory "/var/cache/bind";
// If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
// to talk to, you may need to fix the firewall to allow multiple
// ports to talk. See http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
// If your ISP provided one or more IP addresses for stable
// nameservers, you probably want to use them as forwarders.
// Uncomment the following block, and insert the addresses replacing
// the all-0's placeholder.
// forwarders {
// 0.0.0.0;
// };
auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035
listen-on-v6 { any; };
};
Updated Bind today on Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS, was getting the same issue. Update had changed ownership of /etc/bin/rndc.key file from root:bind to bind:bind. Chowned file back to root:bind, and restarted daemon and all is well.
-nate
that fixed it thanks.
I’m sorry to pick up this line 3 years after it was closed.
I’m having the same problem.
I accidentally enabled (and installed) RNDC but it doesn’t seem to work. Now I can’t get rid of it. Updating my nameserver does not work.
Help?
More info:
CentOS 6.2
Bind 9
/etc/rndc.conf:
Start of rndc.conf
key “rndc-key” {
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret “2E4Axlg7oZCxNoV1/cvW/w==”;
};
options {
default-key “rndc-key”;
default-server 127.0.0.1;
default-port 953;
};
/etc/named.conf
options {
directory “/var/named”;
version “Nope.”;
};
zone “domain1.net” in {
type master;
file “domain1.net.zone”;
};
zone “.” {
type hint;
file “/var/named/root.zone”;
};
zone “domein2.net” {
type master;
file “/var/named/domain2.net.hosts”;
};
zone “domein3.com” {
type master;
file “/var/named/domain3.com.hosts”;
};
Netstat -lnptu output:
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:11211 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 18857/memcached
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7153/pure-ftpd (SER
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3239/named
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3239/named
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1510/master
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 14850/httpd
tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 14850/httpd
tcp 0 0 :::21 :::* LISTEN 7153/pure-ftpd (SER
tcp 0 0 ::1:25 :::* LISTEN 1510/master
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 6954/named
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 6954/named
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 3266/named
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 3266/named
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 3239/named
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 3239/named
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:11211 0.0.0.0:* 18857/memcached
Thanks so much!
reinstalling RNDC did the trick.