Can I run 2 named processes on the same machine?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <088a8a16.2334e794 at usw-ex0107-050.remarq.com>,
Christopher  <ccugnoNOccSPAM at hostpro.net.invalid> wrote:
>I need 2 instances running... We have 100,000 + zones. it takes about
>15 minutes to reload named, and it doesn't service requests while
>reloading... I got the impression on this message board that i could
>begin a child process before I began my reload for my first instance to
>service requests during the parent processes downtime... I just don't
>know how to do that.

There was a message from someone who said that they had modified BIND to
operate like that.  The standard BIND doesn't support it, though; it tries
to start listening on port 53 immediately, and if this fails (because
there's already another process listening on the port) it aborts.

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