Notes for myself and anyone else who runs into this problem…
I was checking yum for updates on one of my Plesk servers and did yum update caching-nameserver … Bad move. It blew away the Plesk named.conf file and killed named on the box.
Here’s what you need to do to get it back:
- First remove the rpms:
yum remove caching-nameserver
- Next, re-install the default file:
cp /var/named/run-root/etc/named.conf.default /var/named/run-root/etc/named.conf
- Now create a little shell script (found the info here and here), call it dns_rebuild.sh and run that script.
- Lastly restart named with
service named restartand you should be good to go.
Sounds easy now but that took 2 hours… Hopefully this note will save someone an hour!
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Thanks, but you left out an important step. Modify your up2date or yum.conf files to exclude caching-nameserver* so it doesn’t happen again.
Thanks Chris. In this case I manually did ‘yum update caching-nameserver’ so this wasn’t something that happened as a result of any automatic updates.