Re: named unable to bind to address?

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On August 17, 2015 12:17:37 PM EDT, "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
>Playing with my "@reboot" crontab entry, since 'cron' is started last,
>the elapsed time since 'named' was first started is enough and no
>additional delay is needed.  As such, it simply restarts 'named' and
>then external queries are received/answered.
>
>I still shouldn't need this.  Why is the address "not available" when
>the first attempt to start 'named' is made?

Is your address set by dhcp, or statically?  If the former, then perhaps you could have the dhclient script kick named after the address is set, or more generically use ifwatchd to do the same thing.

Eric