Mike Leone on 21 Feb 2005 19:52:11 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] bind9 not allowing WinXp clients to update DDNS


Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:18:13PM -0500, Mike Leone said:
>> OK; I've added this. Last night, I saw a message that bind could not
>> update a journal file, because it couldn't create it. So I manually
>> created a "mike-leone.com.jnl" file, owner bind.
>> 
>> I guess what I really need is to make the /etc/bind directory writable
>> by the user bind. How best to do that?
> 
> named writes the journal files to /var/cache/bind, at least here.  This
> is set in /etc/bind/named.conf.options with the directory directive, so
> your setup may be different.  

Mine says that, too. Yet when it wrote the journal file, it wrote it in
/etc/bind.

> Whatever directory it is, make sure it is
> writable by user named (that is the default user for bind9 in Debian,
> AFAIR).

As I posed before, mine apparently runs as user "bind".

Now, of course, it's back to not working ...

Feb 21 14:32:46 mail named[841]: client 192.168.100.73#1851: updating
zone 'mike-leone.com/IN': update failed: 'RRset exists (value
dependent)' prerequisite not satisfied (NXRRSET)
Feb 21 14:32:46 mail named[841]: client 192.168.100.73#1854: update
'mike-leone.com/IN' denied

<SIGH> I *knew* I shoulda just left it alone last night ...

Ah, well. More poking ...

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