bind9 @9.12.1_0 does not work on my High Sierra

[inquil (Carlos Canchaya)]

bind9 @9.12.1_0 does not work on my High Sierra, log message is:

network: error: could not listen on UDP socket: permission denied

I rolled back to bind9 @9.12.0_0 and it works with no problem

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

How are you starting bind9? That sounds like your 9.12.1 is not being started as root, but 9.12.0 is. Additionally what does your listen-on (and/or listen-on-v6) directive look like in your named.conf file?

[inquil (Carlos Canchaya)]

Hi,

a) my script for launching it

cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <false/>
        <key>EnableTransactions</key>
        <true/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>org.isc.named</string>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/usr/local/sbin/named</string>
                <string>-f</string>
        </array>
        <key>ServiceIPC</key>
        <false/>
</dict>
</plist>

b) Only this one set

listen-on { any; };

Regards,

Carlos

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

Is your macports prefix set to /usr/local? The default macports prefix is /opt/local but that startup script is trying to run /usr/local/sbin/named. You may also want to verify that when you've stopped bind9 @9.12.0 that nothing has port 53 open (sudo lsof -i :53).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

As far as I can tell, the bind9 port does not install a file named org.isc.named.plist; instead, it installs a file named org.macports.bind9.plist. So the plist you're looking at and the /usr/local/sbin/named program it's launching don't sound like they came from MacPorts, in which case this ticket should be closed as invalid.