Re: [CentOS] Bind data directory borked on update from 5.3 to 5.4

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@buc.com wrote:

I updated my secondary DNS server from 5.3 to 5.4 today.  After the update, named would not start.  A bit of investigation found that all of the files in /var/named/chroot/var/named/data had been turned into links to themselves!

Fortunately, since this is a secondary DNS, all I had to do was delete the files, replace the root hints file and let everything else copy back over from the master.  If this had been the master, I would have had to restore from backups.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

-- Bowie

Do you have the caching-nameserver package installed? I've heard this can cause problems with files getting overwritten.