[plug] DNS problem has me stumped

[sol]

>
> Open two terminals and "tail -f /var/log/messages" in one.
>
> And "service named restart" in the other.
>
> See if named complains about anything in messages on a restart.

Nothing. :-(   (Actually I had to /etc/init.d/bind9 restart cos service named 
restart didn't work. I think this is a debian thing.)
Come to think of it Telstra were digging around the wires only a couple of 
days before. But if it were hardware I wouldn't be able to ssh to the 
machine.
Awww. This is too complicated. I'm taking my ball and going home. :-(

sol
ps: Thanks Ben. 




On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:12 pm, Ben Jensz wrote:
> Sol wrote:
> >Thankyou for your reply Peter.
> >"ps aux | grep named" gets:
> >root	164	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
> >root	166	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
> >root	167	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
> >root	168	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
> >root	169	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
> >root	1812	0.0	0.1	1336	468	pts/1	S	22:32	0:00	grep named
> >
> >/var/log/messages had nothing of note to tell me (except a complaint about
> > xfs which I didn't realise was a problem). I just read the manpage for
> > named to work out what that was all about. :-) I've still no idea what
> > the above message is all about. What do these tea leaves have to tell us?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >sol