Starting domain name service...: bind9 failed

Вот случилась такая проблемка на Debian Lenny:

/etc/init.d/bind9 start
Starting domain name service...: bind9 failed!

Есть очень легкий способ попросить Named сказать о том, почему он падает:

named -g -u bind
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.124 starting BIND 9.6-ESV-R1 -g -u bind
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.124 built with '--prefix=/usr' '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc/bind' '--localstatedir=/var/run/bind' '--enable-threads' '--enable-largefile' '--with-libtool' '--enable-shared' '--enable-static' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-gssapi=/usr' '--with-gnu-ld' '--with-dlz-postgres=no' '--with-dlz-mysql=no' '--with-dlz-bdb=yes' '--with-dlz-filesystem=yes' '--with-dlz-ldap=yes' '--with-dlz-stub=yes' '--enable-ipv6' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing -DDIG_SIGCHASE -DNS_RUN_PID_DIR=0 -O2' 'LDFLAGS=' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2' 'FFLAGS=-g -O2'
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.124 adjusted limit on open files from 1024 to 1048576
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.124 found 2 CPUs, using 2 worker threads
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.125 using up to 4096 sockets
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.129 loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.723 /etc/bind/named.conf:238: unknown option 'egated'
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.723 /etc/bind/named.conf:238: unexpected token near end of file
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.842 loading configuration: unexpected token
09-Sep-2010 00:41:46.842 exiting (due to fatal error)

Идем на эту строку и фиксим проблему :)