[CentOS] rndc start fails with "rndc: connect failed:connection refused"
Christopher Chan
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed Nov 25 23:50:27 UTC 2009
>> Also in the steps you have taken above you are stopping bind
>> via rndc stop and then trying to start it with the unknown
>> "start" command. Even if "start" was known it would not work,
>> rndc communicated directly with named, and since it was already
>> stopped in a previous step there is no way that your "start"
>> (or any other command, reload, flush, whatever) could work at
>> that point.
>>
>
> That would explain a lot but it would have been more useful if the
> rndc command had returned an error saying something like "start
> command unknown" rather than accepting the command and indicating
> a communication problem.
>
>
So file a bug with the BIND developers about this rather obvious 'bug'.
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