domain problems

[Luke Davis]

Also, I have found that running named, in non-detaching, log to stdout
(debug) mode, and then seeing what messages you get when trying various
things, can really make this process easier.
 On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Gregory
Nowak wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:02:59PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > What does the one about the command channel mean? Is that rndc related?
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> Yes. Rndc is used to control your nameserver, and that control happens
> via 127.0.0.1 port 953 by default. The fact that you are getting these
> warnings actually suggests to me that your named isn't running.
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> > Also, how do I tell rndc to not look for files in /usr/etc?
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> I think that can be done at build time, if at all. Have a look at the
> rndc(8) man page.
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> > Also, even
> > when my server is running, and I do a dig on it the only servers that
> > respond are the root servers. And when I tried to put my nameserver in
> > the list of nameservers directnic should use, I got a message that
> > stated that my nameserver wasn't registered. Anyone know what I am
> > missing here? Thanks!
> >
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> See what I said above, that would really tell me your name server
> isn't running.
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> Greg
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