named stopped working over night

Hey Guys, I'm facing a serious problem which has knocked out my server. For some unknown reason, named is no longer working, despite doing my best to remediation the issues found on the logs. I get this error whenever I try to run the rebuilddnsconfig
warn [fixrndc] /usr/sbin/rndc status failed: rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
And when I check the status of named:

root@host [/etc]# /etc/init.d/named status
rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused

This is my /var/log/messages tail:

root@host [/etc]# tail /var/log/messages
Nov 24 22:32:25 host named[21687]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 108.xx.18.18#53
Nov 24 22:32:25 host named[21687]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1:cp1, 108.xx.18.19#53
Nov 24 22:32:25 host named[21687]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1:cp2, 108.xx.18.20#53
Nov 24 22:32:25 host named[21687]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1:cp3, 108.xx.18.21#53
Nov 24 22:32:25 host named[21687]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1:cp4, 108.xx.18.22#53
Nov 24 22:32:25 host named[21687]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1:cp5, 108.xx.18.23#53
Nov 24 22:32:25 host named[21687]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Nov 24 22:32:25 host named[21687]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid': Permission denied
Nov 24 22:32:25 host named[21687]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
Nov 24 22:32:25 host /etc/init.d/named: named startup succeeded

My configs are given these permissions:

root@host [/etc]# ls -lh | grep named.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 named root  4.9K Nov 24 22:11 named.conf

My named.conf has the following code: (minus zones)

include "/etc/rndc.key";

controls {
	inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { "rndc-key"; };
};	

options {
    /* make named use port 53 for the source of all queries, to allow
         * firewalls to block all ports except 53:
         */

    // query-source    port 53;
    
    recursion no;

    /* We no longer enable this by default as the dns posion exploit
        has forced many providers to open up their firewalls a bit */

    // Put files that named is allowed to write in the data/ directory:
    directory                "/var/named"; // the default
    pid-file                 "/var/run/named/named.pid";
    dump-file                "data/cache_dump.db";
    statistics-file          "data/named_stats.txt";
   /* memstatistics-file     "data/named_mem_stats.txt"; */
    allow-transfer    { "none"; };
};

root@host [/etc]# ls -lh | grep rndc
-rw-rw----  1 named named  479 Nov 24 21:29 rndc.conf
-rw-rw----  1 named named  479 Nov 24 21:16 rndc.conf.bak
-rw-rw----  1 named named   77 Nov 24 21:29 rndc.key

My Named Folder Permissions:

ls -lh /var/run/named/
total 8.0K
drwxrwxr-x  2 named named 4.0K Jan  7  2013 ./
drwxrwx--- 22 root  root  4.0K Nov 24 22:29 ../

Is there anything that stands out here? Thanks for your help!

cPanelMichael

November 26, 2014 14:39

Hello :) Please let us know if the following commands help:

mv /etc/named.conf /etc/named.conf.cpbackup1
/scripts/rebuilddnsconfig

If the issue persists, please open a support ticket using the link in my signature so we can take a closer look. You can post the ticket number here so we can update this thread with the outcome. Thank you.

mofolo

November 30, 2014 13:56

Hey Michael, All good, it turned out that my /var/lib/named directory was not set to the correct group/owner Changing the group/owner fixed my issues.

December 03, 2014 15:30

I am happy to see the issue is now resolved. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.

named stopped working over night

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