Beware of bind-9.2.4-8_FC3:20 (was BIND (Network Manager Strikes Again!!!!))

[Paul Howarth]

jim lawrence wrote:
> All with wireless active to a ad-hoc network  after reboot ( not right)
> 
>>What error message do you get when you ping google.com?
> 
> [root at JimsNotebook ~]# ping -c4 www.google.com
> ping: unknown host www.google.com
> 
> 
> 
>>If it's "host not found" then the DNS lookup has failed but pinging by
>>IP address may still work (e.g. ping 216.239.37.99), in which case your
>>underlying network is still working properly.
>>
> 
> [root at JimsNotebook ~]# ping -c4 192.168.1.49
> PING 192.168.1.49 (192.168.1.49) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>From 169.254.73.88 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>>From 169.254.73.88 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>>From 169.254.73.88 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

This is an underlying network issue. Named won't work because the 
network isn't working.

What's the output of:
# ifconfig -a
# netstat -rn
# rpm -q NetworkManager wireless-tools

> and from last night after a reboot   i got these messages    
> /var/log/messages
> Jan 19 21:35:04 JimsNotebook messagebus: messagebus -TERM succeeded
> Jan 19 21:35:04 JimsNotebook dbus: avc:  1 AV entries and 1/512
> buckets used, longest chain length 1
> Jan 19 21:35:05 JimsNotebook atd: atd shutdown succeeded
> Jan 19 21:35:05 JimsNotebook xfs[4153]: terminating 
> Jan 19 21:35:05 JimsNotebook xfs: xfs shutdown succeeded
> Jan 19 21:35:05 JimsNotebook gpm: gpm shutdown succeeded
> Jan 19 21:35:05 JimsNotebook sshd: sshd -TERM succeeded
> Jan 19 21:35:05 JimsNotebook smartd[4054]: smartd received signal 15:
> Terminated
> Jan 19 21:35:05 JimsNotebook smartd[4054]: smartd is exiting (exit status 0) 
> Jan 19 21:35:05 JimsNotebook smartd: smartd shutdown succeeded
> Jan 19 21:35:06 JimsNotebook kernel: audit(1106188506.273:0): avc: 
> denied  { read } for  pid=7204 exe=/usr/sbin/rndc name=hosts dev=hda8
> ino=460335 scontext=user_u:system_r:ndc_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t tclass=file
> Jan 19 21:35:06 JimsNotebook kernel: audit(1106188506.300:0): avc: 
> denied  { read } for  pid=7209 exe=/usr/sbin/rndc name=hosts dev=hda8
> ino=460335 scontext=user_u:system_r:ndc_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t tclass=file

These are selinux issues but probably unrelated to your problem. In any 
case, the named.conf generated by NetworkManager explicitly disables 
rndc, which would probably explain why "service named status" doesn't 
work - the named initscript uses rndc to get the status.

Paul.