[FIXED] bind9 is running bind9 status reports failed!
bind9 runs in a chroot environment on lenny. The service can be started as usual: # /etc/init.d/bind9 start Starting domain name service...: bind9. Let’s check bind9 status: ` /etc/init.d/bind9 status bind9 is not running failed! ` Well, the first thing I did was to check the log file, in which I found no error related to named. So I tried another way to check the status: # rndc status version: 9.6-ESV-R3 CPUs found: 1 worker threads: 1 number of zones: 17 debug level: 0 xfers running: 0 xfers deferred: 0 soa queries in progress: 0 query logging is OFF recursive clients: 0/0/1000 tcp clients: 0/100 server is up and running I was convinced that the DNS service was running. So what went wrong? It must be something in the /etc/init.d/bind9 script that incorrectly reports bind9 status. Opened up this file, I found: ...