Novell-named debug error "Unable to get configuration from eDirectory failed with error 25"

  • 7001121
  • 07-Aug-2008
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2)

Situation

Novell-named was writing error messages over and over in it's /var/opt/novell/log/named/named.run file.
The pattern was this:
02-Aug-2008 18:03:31.733 general: dynamicrecon: info: Starting the dynamic reconfiguration
02-Aug-2008 18:03:31.762 general: dns/db: info: Unable to get configuration from eDirectory failed with error 25'
02-Aug-2008 18:03:31.762 general: dynamicrecon: warning: Unable to get the configuration information from eDirectory, error value : failure
02-Aug-2008 18:03:31.762 general: dynamicrecon: info: Dynamic reconfiguration completed.

Resolution

This pattern continued until the server was restarted.
Restarting the server, among other things, caused novell-named and ndsd,and the xtier daemons to be restarted and the errors went away.

For additional information about the xtier daemons that DNS uses to get information from eDir see TID#7009924

Additional Information

This is what it looks like in the /var/opt/novell/log/named/named.run file when the novell-named server shuts down.

02-Aug-2008 18:09:29.737 general: control: notice: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953
02-Aug-2008 18:09:29.886 network: interfacemgr: info: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
02-Aug-2008 18:09:29.886 network: interfacemgr: info: no longer listening on 192.168.0.25#53
02-Aug-2008 18:09:29.895 general: main: notice: exiting

This is what it looks like when the daemon starts up.

02-Aug-2008 19:02:57.393 general: main: notice: starting BIND 9.3.2 -u named
02-Aug-2008 19:02:57.461 general: dns/hints: warning: extra data in root hints ' from eDirectory'
02-Aug-2008 19:02:57.468 general: dns/db: info: Read the configuration for the zone: myzone_com.ou of type: 1 with return code: 0 '
02-Aug-2008 19:02:57.471 general: dns/db: info: Read the configuration for the zone: 0_168_192_IN-ADDR_ARPA.ou of type: 1 with return code: 0 '
02-Aug-2008 19:02:57.479 network: interfacemgr: info: no IPv6 interfaces found
02-Aug-2008 19:02:57.479 network: interfacemgr: info: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
02-Aug-2008 19:02:57.479 network: interfacemgr: info: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 192.168.x.x#53
02-Aug-2008 19:02:57.762 general: control: notice: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
...
02-Aug-2008 19:02:57.910 general: dns/zone: info: zone 0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA/IN: loaded serial 2007098178
02-Aug-2008 19:02:58.031 general: dns/zone: info: zone myzone.com/IN: loaded serial 2006098828
02-Aug-2008 19:02:58.031 general: server: notice: running