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Problems with rndc
\ Toni Fandos (15 Jun 2007)
. \ Kevin Darcy (15 Jun 2007)

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Subject:	Problems with rndc
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Toni Fandos
Date:	15 Jun 2007

Hi,
I have made some changes to my bind named.conf.local, so want to restart the
service.

But, when i try /etc/init.d/bind9 restart, i get the following error:

Stopping domain name service: namedrndc: connect failed: connection refused
.
Starting domain name service: named.

When listing the processes, to check if named is running, i get

liborio:/etc/bind# ps aux|grep named

root 1146 0.0 0.6 15728 5536 ? Ss Jan05 0:00 /usr/sbin/named -u root -c
/etc/bind/named.conf

root 1148 0.0 0.6 15728 5536 ? S Jan05 0:00 /usr/sbin/named -u root -c
/etc/bind/named.conf

root 1149 0.0 0.6 15728 5536 ? S Jan05 17:03 /usr/sbin/named -u root -c
/etc/bind/named.conf

root 1150 0.0 0.6 15728 5536 ? S Jan05 0:09 /usr/sbin/named -u root -c
/etc/bind/named.conf

root 1151 0.0 0.6 15728 5536 ? S Jan05 2:02 /usr/sbin/named -u root -c
/etc/bind/named.conf

5 processes running at the time!. It's that normal?

As i have read from posts, the issue can also be related to the rndc.key.
But, when checking the configuration, neither named.conf, nor
named.conf.options refer the use of rndc.key, neither do i have a
rndc.confin the bind directory.

So, if no requesting the key, and named is running, why do i get this error,
and can't stop the process?

Thanks for your help