Is this normal?

[Cricket Liu]

> Whenever I restart named on our server (Redhat 6.0 kernel 2.2.12,
> bind-8.2-6) this statement appears in the syslog.
> 
> Oct 15 18:07:51 ns1 named[469]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> Oct 15 18:07:51 ns1 last message repeated 7 times 

Sure.  That just means the name server has loaded the
root hints file, which tells it the names and addresses
of the root name servers.

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