[plug] DNS problem has me stumped

[Quintin Lette]

I don't know if it sounds like a good idea or not, but my solution would be:
backup /etc/bind/ directory to somewhere.

apt-get remove bind9

followed by:

apt-get install bind9

then copy the database and named.conf files back over

just incase something has gone missing when your system crashed

Worth a try I'd say

HTH

Quintin

On Saturday 12 April 2003 22:39, sol wrote:
> > 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