If you are having problems with the named service, check out the script on the server under /etc/init.d/
Most probably it will be the script for FreeBSD Server. You can make sure by typing /etc/init.d/named –help
You will view that it just has “start & stop” options. You will not find any restart option.
You need to replace that named script with the one below in that case.
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#!/bin/bash
#
# named This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# named (BIND DNS server).
#
# chkconfig: – 55 45
# description: named (BIND) is a Domain Name Server (DNS) \
# that is used to resolve host names to IP addresses.
# probe: true
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
RETVAL=0
prog=”named”
# Check that networking is up.
[ “${NETWORKING}” = “no” ] && exit 0
[ -r /etc/sysconfig/named ] && . /etc/sysconfig/named
[ -x /usr/sbin/named ] || exit 0
[ -r ${ROOTDIR}/etc/named.conf ] || exit 0
start() {
# Start daemons.
if [ -n “`/sbin/pidof named`” ]; then
echo -n $”$prog: already running”
return 1
fi
echo -n $”Starting $prog: ”
if [ -n “${ROOTDIR}” -a “x${ROOTDIR}” != “x/” ]; then
OPTIONS=”${OPTIONS} -t ${ROOTDIR}”
fi
daemon /usr/sbin/named -u named ${OPTIONS}
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/named
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
# Stop daemons.
echo -n $”Stopping $prog: ”
/usr/sbin/rndc stop
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/named || {
killproc named
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/named
}
echo
return $RETVAL
}
rhstatus() {
/usr/sbin/rndc status
return $?
}
restart() {
stop
# wait a couple of seconds for the name to finish closing down
sleep 2
start
}
reload() {
echo -n $”Reloading $prog: ”
/usr/sbin/rndc reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || /usr/bin/killall -HUP `/sbin/pidof -o %PPID named`
[ “$?” -eq 0 ] && success $”$prog reload” || failure $”$prog reload”
echo
return $?
}
probe() {
# named knows how to reload intelligently; we don’t want linuxconf
# to offer to restart every time
/usr/sbin/rndc reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo start
return $?
}
# See how we were called.
case “$1″ in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
rhstatus
;;
restart)
restart
;;
condrestart)
[ -e /var/lock/subsys/named ] && restart
;;
reload)
reload
;;
probe)
probe
;;
*)
echo $”Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|reload|probe}”
exit 1
esac
exit $?
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Restart the named service and it will fix the problem.