Debian Wheezy Bind9 Failing to Start

After installing Bind9 chrooted to /var/lib/named in accordance to this guide (link), Bind9 is failing to start due to the following error noted in /var/log/daemon.log
To resolve this, I found some search results hinting around the fact that OpenSSL libraries for 1.0.0 were the cause since chroot didn’t have access to them.  So to correct this, on my system, I used the following commands.

mkdir -p /var/lib/named/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
cd /var/lib/named/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
cp -R /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openssl-1.0.0 .

After making those modifications, I then start Bind9.

/etc/init.d/bind9 start

Everything is working now.

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