Is this normal?

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Barry" == Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> writes:

    >>> 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.

    Barry> But it should only do this once.  The first message is
    Barry> normal, but the second one, which says that the same
    Barry> message was logged 8 times in a row, is not.  It sounds to
    Barry> me like the named.conf file has 8 'zone "."' commands, but
    Barry> it only needs one of them. 

There might also be duplicate entries in syslog.conf as well as
duplicate zone{} statements in named.conf or duplicate channels in
named's logging{} statement.