Discussion:
Unable to start name
rams
2021-04-09 04:55:00 UTC
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Hi
We are using bind 9.11.28.1 on centos7.8. We have large number of zones on
disk. When we stop/start , we are not getting successful message and seeing
below error. But in log we see named is running and doing axfr/ixfr. Do we
need to add any configuration paameter to avoid below error.

Starting named (via systemctl): Job for named.service failed because a
timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status named.service" and "journalctl
-xe" for details

Kindly help me.

Regards,
Ramesh.
S***@registry.godaddy
2021-04-09 05:46:53 UTC
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Date: Friday, 9 April 2021 at 2:56 pm
Subject: Unable to start name
Hi
We are using bind 9.11.28.1 on centos7.8. We have large number of zones
on disk. When we stop/start , we are not getting successful message and
seeing below error. But in log we see named is running and doing
axfr/ixfr. Do we need to add any configuration paameter to avoid below
error.
Starting named (via systemctl): Job for named.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status named.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details
You mentioned that you have a large number of zones. If there are no error
messages generated by NAMED starting other than the exceeding of a timeout,
it could just be the system service-start timing out.

Have a look at TimeoutSec in the service unit definition:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#TimeoutSec=

You may also want to try "named-checkconf -z /etc/named.conf" and see how long
it takes (as this does a similar sort of validation as starting the service does).

Stuart

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rams
2021-04-09 06:07:52 UTC
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Thank you Stuart for your reply.
When I run named-checkconf seeing as below and also status shows always
failed.
I have looked into the below zones and not seen any issue with those.

[dev][***@xtld2.usiad42 log]# named-checkconf -z /etc/named.conf
zone localhost.localdomain/IN: loaded serial 0
zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 0
zone
1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN:
loaded serial 0
zone 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
[dev][***@xtld2.usiad42 log]# service named status
rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
● named.service - LSB:
start|stop|status|restart|try-restart|reload|force-reload DNS server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/named; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2021-04-09 04:49:29 UTC; 1h
15min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 23987 ExecStop=/etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop (code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 1345 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/named start (code=killed,
signal=TERM)

Apr 09 05:19:38 named[1354]: generating session key for dynamic DNS
Apr 09 05:19:38 named[1354]: could not create /var/run/named/session.key
Apr 09 05:19:38 named[1354]: failed to generate session key for dynamic
DNS: permi...ied
Apr 09 05:19:38 named[1354]: sizing zone task pool based on 583 zones
Apr 09 05:19:38 named[1354]: none:100: 'max-cache-size 90%' - setting to
115894MB ...MB)
Apr 09 05:19:39 named[1354]: none:100: 'max-cache-size 90%' - setting to
115894MB ...MB)
Apr 09 05:19:39 named[1354]: configuring command channel from
'/etc/rndc.key'
Apr 09 05:19:39 named[1354]: configuring command channel from
'/etc/rndc.key'
Apr 09 05:19:39 named[1354]: reloading configuration succeeded
Apr 09 05:19:39 named[1354]: zone
5.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.1.6.0.1.0.a.2.ip6.arpa/IN: ref...led
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Post by rams
Date: Friday, 9 April 2021 at 2:56 pm
Subject: Unable to start name
Hi
We are using bind 9.11.28.1 on centos7.8. We have large number of zones
on disk. When we stop/start , we are not getting successful message and
seeing below error. But in log we see named is running and doing
axfr/ixfr. Do we need to add any configuration paameter to avoid below
error.
Starting named (via systemctl): Job for named.service failed because a
timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status named.service" and "journalctl
-xe" for details
You mentioned that you have a large number of zones. If there are no error
messages generated by NAMED starting other than the exceeding of a timeout,
it could just be the system service-start timing out.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#TimeoutSec=
You may also want to try "named-checkconf -z /etc/named.conf" and see how long
it takes (as this does a similar sort of validation as starting the service does).
Stuart
Reindl Harald
2021-04-09 10:26:49 UTC
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Apr 09 05:19:38  named[1354]: generating session key for dynamic DNS
Apr 09 05:19:38 named[1354]: could not create /var/run/named/session.key
Apr 09 05:19:38 named[1354]: failed to generate session key for dynamic
DNS: permi...ied
/var/run point to /run which is tmpfs and subfolders needs to be
re-created at boot, normally there should be a config which ensures that
and be part of the package

cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/named.conf
d /run/named 0755 named named -

if that's missing "/etc/tmpfiles.d" is the location where you place
manual stuff - /usr/lib is apckage area, /etc is admin-area
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