Re: Setting up DNS Primary and Secondary Server
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:06 -0500, Jeff Self wrote:
> I've successfully set up a Primary DNS server with Bind9. I've used the
> instructions from the Debian Network Administrator's Guide. I also
> installed Bind9 on another server and created zone's in the named.conf
> file that are of type slave and pointed the masters to my other server.
> I restarted Bind and I see named running in the processes. But I'm not
> seeing anything get transferred from the primary server. Shouldn't
> there be something in /var/cache/bind? Mine is empty on the Secondary
> server.
>
> I'm getting the following error messages in my syslog:
>
> Nov 3 09:59:47 utils2 named[1912]: loading configuration from
> '/etc/bind/named.conf'
> Nov 3 09:59:47 utils2 named[1912]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> Nov 3 09:59:47 utils2 named[1913]: dumping master
> file: /etc/bind/tmp-XXXXEgUxkw: open: permission denied
> Nov 3 09:59:47 utils2 named[1913]: transfer of
> '106.5.10.in-addr.arpa/IN' from 10.5.107.12#53: failed while receiving
> responses: permission denied
> Nov 3 09:59:47 utils2 named[1913]: transfer of
> '106.5.10.in-addr.arpa/IN' from 10.5.107.12#53: end of transfer
> Nov 3 09:59:48 utils2 named[1913]: dumping master
> file: /etc/bind/tmp-XXXXXJVhAQ: open: permission denied
> Nov 3 09:59:48 utils2 named[1913]: transfer of
> '112.5.10.in-addr.arpa/IN' from 10.5.107.12#53: failed while receiving
> responses: permission denied
> Nov 3 09:59:48 utils2 named[1913]: transfer of
> '112.5.10.in-addr.arpa/IN' from 10.5.107.12#53: end of transfer
> Nov 3 09:59:48 utils2 named[1912]: dumping master
> file: /etc/bind/tmp-XXXXdeApkb: open: permission denied
> Nov 3 09:59:48 utils2 named[1912]: transfer of 'nnfoo.org/IN' from
> 10.5.107.12#53: failed while receiving responses: permission denied
> Nov 3 09:59:48 utils2 named[1912]: transfer of 'nnfoo.org/IN' from
> 10.5.107.12#53: end of transfer
> Nov 3 09:59:48 utils2 named[1912]: dumping master
> file: /etc/bind/tmp-XXXXF424uu: open: permission denied
> Nov 3 09:59:48 utils2 named[1912]: transfer of
> '107.5.10.in-addr.arpa/IN' from 10.5.107.12#53: failed while receiving
> responses: permission denied
> Nov 3 09:59:48 utils2 named[1912]: transfer of
> '107.5.10.in-addr.arpa/IN' from 10.5.107.12#53: end of transfer
>
> Why am I getting permission denied? Port 53 is open. What is the
> master file? I don't see anything called tmp-XXXXF424uu or similar.
>
Got it working. Had to change the permissions of /etc/bind from 2755 to
2775 so that the bind user could write to the directory.
--
Jeff Self
Information Technology
City of Newport News
757.926.3741
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