I am setting up a learning computer in Virtual Box. I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 and selected DNS Server from the Task Select during the initial install. All went well with the initial install. I changed my IP Address to Static (following the Ubuntu Server Guide) and then began setting up a DNS server for my small home network (Again following the Ubuntu server guide). The first thing the guide states to do is add your forwarders, then restart DNS, which I did and I get:
service bind9 restart
* Stopping domain name service... bind9
rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused [OK]
* Starting domain name service... bind9 [fail]
So I kind of thought, well we really have not configured anything, so that does not seem too crazy, and contiuned on with the guide. Everytime I am being asked to restart bind9 I am getting the same message so the configuration is not progressing any further.
So I tried to locate a log file to tell me why it was failing and cannot seem to find that either.
Any guidance with this initial set up of a very small private home network would be greatly appreciated.
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