Bind always stopping and won't start

[Joseph S D Yao]

> In running bind-8.2, we have quite a lot of problems when reloading dns
> and bind will quit running, without saying a word. Next time time you go
> to reload, it gives an error message about connection refused, and then
> you have to try and start it again.  Sometimes it'll start, other times it
> won't.  It'll say invalid pid or name server not running.  The only way to
> start it is to comment some things out of named.conf. I've had to comment
> out the entry for 127.0.0.0.
> 
> Any clue to help me out?

Any clues about your configuration?  Have you checked your syslogd
output?

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