[afnog] DNS and BIND9

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:34:07AM +0100,
 Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com> wrote 
 a message of 32 lines which said:

> You can't do 'reload' unless the daemon is already running, because
> it uses rndc to send a message to the daemon telling it to re-read
> its configs.

Also, check that there is something in named.conf.options (the Debian
site-specific options) to authorize rndc, for instance:

controls {
     inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } ;
};

> If 'start' doesn't work, then perhaps your named.conf is broken. Try
> looking in syslog (e.g. /var/log/messages)

/var/log/daemon.log is the default for Debian (unless you changed it).