rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused

Posted on by Seemab Saleem

Your servers named service may go unresponsive with the following error logs:

[root@server ~]# service named restart
Stopping named: …………………………………….[FAILED]
Starting named: named: already running                     [FAILED]

rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused

For solution check the file /etc/sysconfig/named. You can locate the following line:

ROOTDIR=”/var/named/chroot/”

Comment the above statement

#ROOTDIR=”/var/named/chroot/”

Now restart the named service on the server.