Linux Bind

Errors

zone file not loading due to could not create jnl file

This is directory permissions issue.

Check the directory permissions for bind (/etc/bind) to make sure that the user bind has rw permissions.

# ls -la /etc/ | grep bind
drwxrwsr--   2 root bind    4096 Mar 18 00:58 bind

I found that on Debian Wheezy 7.8, the default permissions on the directory were causing the error.

drwxr-sr--   2 root bind    4096 Mar 18 00:58 bind

chmod'ing the directory fixed it:

# chmod 764 /etc/bind

You could also chown the directory recursively, but I try to give the least amount of permissions as possible for it to run.

# chown -R bind:bind /etc/bind

journal rollforward failed: journal out of sync with zone

Editing zone files without stopping dhcp updates will cause your current zone that you are working to stop working... restarting the process and rebooting have no affect.

If you stop bind and start it with named -g and see the following:

zone somedomain.com/IN: journal rollforward failed: journal out of sync with zone

You saved an edit during an update and the journal became out of sync.

This can be remedied by executing the running the following commands:

rndc freeze somedomain.com
rndc reload somedomain.com
rndc thaw somedomain.com

If this does not fix the issue, then you can shut down bind and delete the journal it was complaining about.

Finally, you should freeze the zone, edit, reload, and thaw when making changes on a DDNS setup.

rndc freeze somedomain.com

<editor of choice - vi,nano,emacs> somedomain.com and make your changes; then:

rndc reload somedomain.com
rndc thaw somedomain.com