"named: the working directory is not writable"
message on FreeBSD
Recently I've noticed in my FreeBSD router in
/var/log/messages the following messages;
Nov 25 15:23:47 pcfreak named[11339]: starting BIND 9.4.3-P2
-t /var/named -u bind
Nov 25 15:23:47 pcfreak named[11339]: command channel listening on
127.0.0.1#953
Nov 25 15:23:47 pcfreak named[11339]: command channel listening on
::1#953
Nov 25 15:23:47 pcfreak named[11339]: the working directory is not
writable
My first reaction was that the BIND server is not working so I
checked to resolve a couple of the domains which I've added to my
slave named server.
It appears each of the domains were resolving perfectly fine.
However when I tried to resolve from the Internet I found it quite
strange because I couldn't resolve.
After a quick look up on the Internet about the same Issue I came
to the following thread in
freebsd.forums.org
where the same problem was explained and an explanation on how
to fix the error is explained there.
Anyways it seems the
named[11339]: the working directory is not
writable is not a crucial message and it's just a
warning
message
Thus you can safely ignore the message and continue on. I guess my
problems with domains resolving from the Internet are caused
because my ISP is filtering some UDP ports or something so I'll
contact them right away and check if this is the problem.