[Pdns-users] newbie pdns crashing on startup

[Dave Corsello]

Sorry, there's a typo in the line, "...TCP server bound to 
192.168.1:53".  It should read "...TCP server bound to 
192.168.1.70:53".  The actual local-address setting is configured 
correctly in pdns.conf.

Dave Corsello wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to PowerDNS, and, in general, the task of setting up a DNS 
> server.  In order to learn what's involved in installing and 
> configuring pdns, I have installed ver. 2.9.21.1 on a virtual machine 
> that's running FreeBSD 7.1 and MySQL 5.1.28.  My plan is to create 
> zones with local addresses only.  When I launch pdns, I get the 
> following messages:
>
> Mar 16 17:32:44 This is module gmysqlbackend.so reporting
> Mar 16 17:32:44 This is a standalone pdns
> Mar 16 17:32:44 Listening on controlsocket in 
> '/var/run/pdns.controlsocket'
> Mar 16 17:32:44 UDP server bound to 192.168.1.70:53
> Mar 16 17:32:44 TCP server bound to 192.168.1:53
> Mar 16 17:32:44 PowerDNS 2.9.21.1 (C) 2001-2008 PowerDNS.COM BV (Mar 
> 15 2009, 21:14:43, gcc 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]) starting up
> Mar 16 17:32:44 PowerDNS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is 
> free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it according to the 
> terms of the GPL version 2.
> Mar 16 17:32:44 Creating backend connection for TCP
> Mar 16 17:32:44 gmysql Connection succesful
> Mar 16 17:32:44 About to create 3 backend threads for UDP
> Mar 16 17:32:44 gmysql Connection succesful
> Mar 16 17:32:45 gmysql Connection succesful
> Mar 16 17:32:45 gmysql Connection succesful
>
> And that's it.  I never get the message, "Done launching threads, 
> ready to distribute questions", and pdns never actually launches.  
> Please let me know what information I should share with you all that 
> would help you to understand what's going on here.  Thanks in advance 
> for your assistance.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dave Corsello
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