Does named/BIND log startup errors

binddomain-name-system

Does named log startup errors if so what is the default path?

The Wikipedia page for BIND speak of a configuration file verification tool – does anyone know of this?

Best Answer

most daemons log to /var/log/daemon. errors sometimes are also logged to /var/log/messages. you can check this by looking at the syslog configuration file /etc/syslog.conf.

the configcheck util for BIND is named-checkconf. it's a bit tricky, if you run your BIND chrooted.

first start with:

named-checkconf

to check the zone files also:

named-checkconf -z

in a chrooted environment try this:

named-checkconf -t /var/named -z
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