On one of our servers it appears that the DNS information is not reloading. I have updated the serial number for a particular zone file and doing a:

dig @localhost domain.com SOA

does not report and updated SOA.

When I do a /usr/sbin/ndc reload, I get the follow message in /var/log/messages:

Jun 26 21:13:32 host1 named[22890]: reloading nameserver
Jun 26 21:13:32 host1 named[22890]: couldn't create pid file '/var/run/named.pid'
Jun 26 21:13:32 host1 named[22890]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].3636
Jun 26 21:13:32 host1 named[22890]: Ready to answer queries.


When I reload BIND in the WHM, I get:

stdin: is not a tty
ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): Connection refused
ndc: error: cannot connect to command channel (/var/run/ndc)
Attempting to restart bind

bind status
bind did not return a status report
bind started ok

I'm not real technical savy when it comes to DNS problems, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

I suspect you are trying to restart bind as a normal user. Try doing the same thing as root user.

I forgot to post on here last night. I found the problem, with the SOA not updating... I was editting the wrong zone file. For some reason there were two entries and one had capital letters, and that was the one I was changing, but named.conf pointed to the lowercase one.

As for the error, I made some modifications to /var/run and it appears to be working now.

Thanks