FC 5 named service seems to "go away"
bill perkins
perk at iag.net
Thu Jan 18 03:16:17 UTC 2007
Richard England wrote:
> I have a set of 3 Linux boxes, LaptopFC6, DesktopFC5, and DesktopFC6.
> On the two FC6 machines named is no longer a services ( I'm not sure who
> took it's place, since I'm a networking neophyte) but everything seems
> to be working to allow me access to the net via my DSL modem/router and
> to each of the machines from each other....
>
> . . . except (you knew there had to be an exceptions, else why would I
> bother with this)
>
> DesktopFC5 (didius) periodically looses contact with the (net)world. It
> can't be pinged, I can ssh to it, and I can't get to an external site,
> at least by name. When I discovered this I fell back on my Unix
> experience and restarted and named and, voila!, everything was back in
> order.
>
> I have NetworkManager running on all three machines.
>
> I keep all three of them as close to current in updates as I can.
>
>
> Can anyone tell me why named periodically goes into limbo? or tell me
> how I can start to investigate this?
>
> /var/log/messages
>
> seems to show the following when I can no longer use the name of the
> site/machine
>
> Jan 16 23:01:03 didius NetworkManager: <WARNING>
> add_ip4_config_to_named (): Could not set forwarders for zone '.'.
> Error: 'No reply within specified time'.
>
> When I restart named I get the following in /var/log/messages
>
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: shutting down: flushing changes
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: stopping command channel on
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: no longer listening on 192.168.1.45#53
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2410]: exiting
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: starting BIND 9.3.3rc2 -u named -D
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: loading configuration from
> '/etc/named.conf'Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: listening on IPv4
> interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: listening
> on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.1.45#53
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: command channel listening on
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded
> serial 42
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded
> serial 1997022700
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone 255.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded
> serial 42
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone
> 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN:
> loaded serial 1997022700
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone localdomain/IN: loaded serial 42
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: D-BUS dhcdbd subscription enabled.
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: D-BUS service enabled.
> Jan 16 23:00:38 didius named[2532]: running
>
> Sometimes I can go for several hours with out a problem. Other times it
> is a matter of minutes.
>
> Any help gratefully appreciated.
>
> ~~R
>
Looks to me like you might not be configured quite right; what does
/etc/resolv.conf look like on your system? This will tell us who the
machine thinks are the local DNS servers.
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