[Webscreamer]

I had my DNS server running perfectly the first time I installed it. I messed the system up and reinstalled it while doing something else. NOW, I can't EVER get it going again.

Here is the log in the terminal

Charles-Sieverts-Computer:~ charlessievert$ tail /var/log/system.log
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: could not listen on UDP socket: address in use
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: creating IPv4 interface en0 failed; interface ignored
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: not listening on any interfaces
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: none:0: open: /private/etc/rndc.key: file not found
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: /private/etc/named.conf:7: couldn't install keys for command channel 127.0.0.1#54: file not found
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: /private/etc/named.conf:7: couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#54: file not found
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: zone webscreamer.com/IN: loaded serial 2003111006
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42
Nov 9 22:04:17 localhost named[1127]: running

[twinspop]

"could not listen on UDP socket: address in use" means something else is already listening on the name server port (53). Make sure there isn't an instance of named already running.

Tangentially, I'd highly recommend djbdns over BIND:

http://www.djbdns.org

OS X specific:

http://matt.simerson.net/computing/d...s-macosx.shtml


hth