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Unable to start BIND on Plesk server: Failed with result 'timeout'

Alexander Davydov
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Plesk for Linux kb: technical

Applicable to:

  • Plesk for Linux

Symptoms

Unable to start BIND DNS server on Plesk server:

named[17147]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
bind9.service: Failed with result 'timeout'

Cause

Custom BIND configuration.

Resolution

  1. Connect to the server via SSH.

  2. Open /lib/systemd/system/bind9.service in any text editor like vi-editor and make sure that [Service] section looks as following:

    [Service]
    EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/bind9
    ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named $OPTIONS
    ExecReload=/usr/sbin/rndc reload
    ExecStop=/usr/sbin/rndc stop

  3. Start BIND service:

    # systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl start bind9

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    Alban L

    After investigation there were these errors:

    named[415867]: checkhints: view localhost_resolver: b.root-servers.net/A (192.228.79.201) extra record in hints

    The following commands solves the problem: 

    dig +bufsize=1200 +norec NS . @a.root-servers.net > /var/named/named.ca
    service bind9 start
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