Brand new 22.04 LTS installation Named fails on startup

MattCaz

7/7/24, 5:52 PM

Installed 22.04 LTS and all went smoothly. I'm not a Linux expert but followed directions on installing services by LinuxTechi.

Bind9/Named refuses to start and I get the following error. I have no idea what's causing it or how to fix it. If someone can point me in the right direction, I'm willing to do the research and reading.

--------------------ERROR-----------------

 named.service - BIND Domain Name Server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2023-07-07 17:44:37 UTC; 46s ago
       Docs: man:named(8)

    Process: 3922821 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 25ms

Jul 07 17:44:37 cazserver systemd[1]: named.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jul 07 17:44:37 cazserver systemd[1]: Stopped BIND Domain Name Server.
Jul 07 17:44:37 cazserver systemd[1]: named.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 07 17:44:37 cazserver systemd[1]: named.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 07 17:44:37 cazserver systemd[1]: Failed to start BIND Domain Name Server.

--------------------END ERROR-------------------

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MattCaz

7/7/24, 7:47 PM

Followed these directions but used my domain.local in place of theirs. https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-configure-bind-9-dns-server-ubuntu-debian/

Talaat Etman

7/7/24, 10:00 PM

https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-domain-name-service-dns

MattCaz

7/8/24, 9:54 PM

Thank you so much.. removed what I had and started over following the directions you posted. Between you and Pihhan I got it working now!

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Pihhan

7/8/24, 3:36 AM

This problem is likely caused by configuration error. Have you tried running named-checkconf command?

Use journalctl -xeu named to read longer details from named. There should be exact reason. If the configuration is correct, I would guess another service is already listening on port 53. Try sudo ss -lnp | grep :53.

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MattCaz

7/8/24, 9:53 PM

YOU GOT IT! I ran named-checkconf and had 2 instructions for ACL "internals" and I commented them out and bind loads and runs now. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!

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