Bind: rndc: connect failed: connection refused

[tomfmason]

I fought with this for several hours last night and have tried everything I can think of. First I made sure that the syntax was correct in the named.conf. There was two small syntax errors that I cleared up right away. Then I thought maybe it was an issue with the permissions for the new zone file. So I:

 

[root@tomfmason ~]# ls -l /var/named/chroot
total 12
drwxr-x---   2 root named 4096 Feb 24  2007 dev
drwxr-x---   2 root named 4096 Oct 20 12:18 etc
dr-xr-xr-x  75 root root     0 Aug 20 00:02 proc
drwxrwxr-x   5 root named 4096 Feb 24  2007 var

 

[root@tomfmason ~]# ls -l /var/named/chroot/var/named/
total 64
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root     6 Feb 24  2007 chroot -> ../../
drwxr-xr-x  2 named named 4096 Aug 25  2004 data
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named 2769 Feb 24  2007 named.ca
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  256 Feb 24  2007 named.local
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  668 Feb 24  2007 pri.68.64.69.in-addr.arpa
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  736 Oct 11 16:31 pri.netgeekz.net
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  729 Aug 23 19:36 pri.qualitycoders.biz
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  731 Aug 23 19:38 pri.qualitycoders.info
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  748 Oct  2 14:30 pri.qualitycoders.net
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  729 Aug 23 19:36 pri.qualitycoders.org
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  764 Nov  1  2007 pri.rails-solutions.com   <---- New zone
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  742 Feb 24  2007 pri.tomfmason.info
-rwxr-xr-x  1 named named  839 Oct 20 12:19 pri.tomfmason.net
drwxr-xr-x  2 named named 4096 Jul 27  2004 slaves

 

 

That seemed about right. Then I checked the log.

[root@tomfmason ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Nov  1 01:30:26 tomfmason named[1266]: shutting down: flushing changes
Nov  1 01:30:26 tomfmason named[1266]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953
Nov  1 01:30:26 tomfmason named[1266]: stopping command channel on ::1#953
Nov  1 01:30:26 tomfmason named[1266]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
Nov  1 01:30:26 tomfmason named[1266]: no longer listening on 69.64.68.234#53
Nov  1 01:30:27 tomfmason named[1266]: exiting

 

Anyone have any suggestions as to how I could trouble shoot this further or a possible solution?

[steviewdr]

I think you've fixed this yourself Tom. Just to mention:

 

man rndc:

rndc = name server control utility

 

So...if rndc says "connection refused", it cant connect to the name server. Try: telnet localhost 53 and/or restart named to make sure its running etc.

 

-steve