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DNS records for domain are not updated: Unable to manage service by dnsmng

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Renan Moreira
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Plesk for Linux kb: technical ABT: Group B

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  • Plesk for Linux

Symptoms

DNS records for a domain failed to update with the following error:

PLESK_ERROR: Unable to make action: Unable to manage service by dnsmng: ('start', 'dns'). Error: :

Cause

DNS service was not reloaded because named service is used instead of named-chrooted.

Resolution

  1. Connect to the server via SSH;

  2. Disable named.service:

    # systemctl disable named.service

  3. Enable named-chroot.service:

    # systemctl enable named-chroot.service
    # ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-chroot.service'

  4. Start the named-chroot.service:

    # systemctl start named-chroot.service
    # systemctl status named-chroot.service
    named-chroot.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-chroot.service; enabled)
    Active: active (running) since Wed 2015-01-07 22:57:33 CST; 27min ago
    Main PID: 12682 (named)
    CGroup: /system.slice/named-chroot.service
    └─1035 /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot -c /etc/named.conf -u named -n 2

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    Tobias Buschor

    If i run step 2. in CentOS 6 this happen:

    systemctl: command not found

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    Anton Maslov

    Tobias, systemctl exists only on CentOS 7. This article don't apply to CentOS 6, because it is running named service, while CentOS 7 only running named-chroot service.

    You might be have another reason, please check /var/log/messages on why bind does not start and check for other articles with such symptoms.

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    Tobias Buschor

    Thanks, I found the problem.

    There was a DNS entry with an underscore "_" in a subdomain which is not allowed.

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    Regis

    Houston we have a problem...

    # systemctl start named-chroot.service
    Job for named-chroot.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status named-chroot.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

    # systemctl status named-chroot.service
    ● named-chroot.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-chroot.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/named-chroot.service.d
    └─respawn.conf
    Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since ven. 2020-12-04 07:55:13 CET; 303ms ago
    Process: 5663 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/named-checkconf -t /var/named/chroot -z /etc/named.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

    déc. 04 07:55:13 kal-srv-01.local systemd[1]: Failed to start Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS).
    déc. 04 07:55:13 kal-srv-01.local systemd[1]: Unit named-chroot.service entered failed state.
    déc. 04 07:55:13 kal-srv-01.local systemd[1]: named-chroot.service failed.

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    BNB

    Having the exact same problem on CentOS 7 - the commands didn't work.

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