multiple named processes

[David Rees]

This is because BIND 9 is multi-threaded, and on Linux, threads appear 
as processes in the process list.  This is normal.

-Dave

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:15:04AM -0600, Iris Silva wrote:
> 
> I just installed BIND 9.0.1 on a Linux 6.0 , kernel 2.2.5-15 box, when i
> start named it logs:
> 
> starting BIND 9.0.1
> loading configuration from /etc/named.conf
> no IPv6 interfaces found
> listening on IPv4 interface lo0, 127.0.0.1#53   
> listening on IPv4 interface eth0, xx.xx.xx.xx#53
> running
> 
> nevertheless if i do
> 
> ps -ax | grep named
> 
> i see 5 named processes active, if i kill one, all 5 of them die.
> 
> Ideas of why I'm obtaining this weird situation ?