hi there just got my first server and bind keeps failing for whatever reason. When reloading it with WHM, it says:

Attempting to restart bind
rndc: connect: connection refused bind status bind did not return a status report
bind started ok

What is very weird is that domains on the server cant be accessed, but their nameservers can.

* domain.com and everything else can't be accessed.
* ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com can be accessed over the web.

is the failing bind the reason why the domains can't be accessed?

thanks
:)

If BIND keeps failing the domainname will never work then.
Did you e-mail your admin to ask what going on?
Also you might want to look for this tool "chkserv" it's a program that restarts apache or bind if it goes down.

log in as root to your server on 2 consoles

on one type

tail -f /var/log/messages

on the other type

/etc/rc.d/init.d/named start

on the screen where you are tailing the messages file you will see the error message as to why named isn't starting, post that to the board and it will be a lot simpler to diagnose your problem

Mike

:eek2: We're having the same problem on a new server.