[gentoo-amd64] Completely remove BIND

[gentoo-amd64] Completely remove BIND

[Mark Haney]

I've done something really stupid and FUBAR'd my BIND install on what 
will be my new slave DNS server.  The problem is that no matter what I 
do, when I try to start BIND the system claims 'named is already started'.

What I want to do now is start over, tabula rasa, and rebuild BIND. I've 
tried emerge -C bind bind-tools but when I emerge it back, I still get 
the same problem.

So, any decent, non-system-destructive ways to wipe BIND off the system.

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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Completely remove BIND

[Bob Sanders]

Mark Haney, mused, then expounded:
> I've done something really stupid and FUBAR'd my BIND install on what will 
> be my new slave DNS server.  The problem is that no matter what I do, when 
> I try to start BIND the system claims 'named is already started'.
>

Sorry for asking the obvious..

Have you tried - /etc/init.d/{bind} zap

If you haven't rebooted the system to running flag is still set in /var.

Bob
> What I want to do now is start over, tabula rasa, and rebuild BIND. I've 
> tried emerge -C bind bind-tools but when I emerge it back, I still get the 
> same problem.
>
> So, any decent, non-system-destructive ways to wipe BIND off the system.
>
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Completely remove BIND

[Mark Haney]

Bob Sanders wrote:
> Mark Haney, mused, then expounded:
>> I've done something really stupid and FUBAR'd my BIND install on what will 
>> be my new slave DNS server.  The problem is that no matter what I do, when 
>> I try to start BIND the system claims 'named is already started'.
>>
> 
> Sorry for asking the obvious..
> 
> Have you tried - /etc/init.d/{bind} zap
> 

Yeah, probably should have mentioned, I've tried that too.  Sorry, I've 
tried so many things, I can't remember them all.



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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Completely remove BIND

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Dienstag 02 Dezember 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
> I've done something really stupid and FUBAR'd my BIND install on what
> will be my new slave DNS server.  The problem is that no matter what I
> do, when I try to start BIND the system claims 'named is already started'.
>
> What I want to do now is start over, tabula rasa, and rebuild BIND. I've
> tried emerge -C bind bind-tools but when I emerge it back, I still get
> the same problem.
>
> So, any decent, non-system-destructive ways to wipe BIND off the system.

that is probably just a remnant of the init script. try /etc/init.d/named zap 
if that file still exists

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Completely remove BIND

[Mark Haney]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Dienstag 02 Dezember 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
>> I've done something really stupid and FUBAR'd my BIND install on what
>> will be my new slave DNS server.  The problem is that no matter what I
>> do, when I try to start BIND the system claims 'named is already started'.
>>
>> What I want to do now is start over, tabula rasa, and rebuild BIND. I've
>> tried emerge -C bind bind-tools but when I emerge it back, I still get
>> the same problem.
>>
>> So, any decent, non-system-destructive ways to wipe BIND off the system.
> 
> that is probably just a remnant of the init script. try /etc/init.d/named zap 
> if that file still exists
> 
> 

Nah, I've got bigger problems on this box.  Somehow, GCC has been 
completely hosed.  I'll need to rebuild gcc from a liveCD.  I have a 
feeling the HDD on this box is failing.


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Completely remove BIND

[Branko Badrljica]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> On Dienstag 02 Dezember 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
>>> I've done something really stupid and FUBAR'd my BIND install on what
>>> will be my new slave DNS server.  The problem is that no matter what I
>>> do, when I try to start BIND the system claims 'named is already 
>>> started'.
>>>
>>> What I want to do now is start over, tabula rasa, and rebuild BIND. 
>>> I've
>>> tried emerge -C bind bind-tools but when I emerge it back, I still get
>>> the same problem.
>>>
>>> So, any decent, non-system-destructive ways to wipe BIND off the 
>>> system.
>>
>> that is probably just a remnant of the init script. try 
>> /etc/init.d/named zap if that file still exists
>>
>>
>
> Nah, I've got bigger problems on this box.  Somehow, GCC has been 
> completely hosed.  I'll need to rebuild gcc from a liveCD.  I have a 
> feeling the HDD on this box is failing.
>
>
What system do you have ( x86, x86_64, normal or hardened kernel, 
selinux or not, which profile etc) ?

If it's similar to any of mine,  I could leave you binpkg of mine gcc on 
http server for download...

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Completely remove BIND

[Mark Haney]

Branko Badrljica wrote:

>>
>> Nah, I've got bigger problems on this box.  Somehow, GCC has been 
>> completely hosed.  I'll need to rebuild gcc from a liveCD.  I have a 
>> feeling the HDD on this box is failing.
>>
>>
> What system do you have ( x86, x86_64, normal or hardened kernel, 
> selinux or not, which profile etc) ?
> 
> If it's similar to any of mine,  I could leave you binpkg of mine gcc on 
> http server for download...
> 

I certainly do appreciate the offer, but afer more digging, I'm pretty 
well convinced the HDD is going bad quickly.  Fortunately, it's not a 
critical server (for now) and I'm glad this happened BEFORE we went live 
with the DNS slave server.


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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Completely remove BIND

[Duncan]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
493597DE.7080201@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Tue, 02 Dec 2008
15:17:34 -0500:

> I certainly do appreciate the offer, but afer more digging, I'm pretty
> well convinced the HDD is going bad quickly.  Fortunately, it's not a
> critical server (for now) and I'm glad this happened BEFORE we went live
> with the DNS slave server.

Ouch!

For production use, I'd definitely consider at least a 2-disk RAID-1 or 
perhaps a 4-disk RAID-6 if you want two-way check-sums, for that very 
reason.  With disks what they are now ($30 US shipped, SATA 40GB, 
pricewatch.com, less if you'll take pulls tho I wouldn't), even if a new 
server can be imaged and brought on line quickly, it's just not worth the 
hassle, for the cost of switching out a single disk and continuing in 
place.  Get the mdadm disk failure and walk over and hot-swap, then 
monitor it while doing other things until the RAID rebuild is complete.  
Pretty hard to beat.

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