named.reload on bind 8.2 kills named

[Joseph S D Yao]

> Recently, doing a named.reload has been killing named on our primary
> NS. I am also getting these messages on my console when I reload:
> "named[16208]: ctl_server: bind: Address already in use". Those
> messages about the socket are new, I beleive. Bind is version 8.2
> running on a BSDI box that has 256 megs of Ram. I killed named then
> restarted it with the -d 3 flag and looked through the named.run file,
> and I did not see anything abnormal, but then, I might not know what
> to look for. A grep for fclose on named.run showed that it succeeded
> in loading every zone, at least.
> I frankly am new to this, and would appreciate any helpful
> suggestions, such how to debug this problem or any other steps I might
> take.
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On Solaris systems, this symptom means that the /etc/ndc "FIFO" file
must be removed before re-starting 'named'.  This bug has been fixed in
later versions of BIND.

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