Two BIND 9.2.1 questions

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> I would appreciate any advice on the following:
> 
> 1.
> I upgraded to BIND 9.2.1 from RH errata RPM on my slave DNS server running 
> RH7.2.  I was running BIND 8.2.5 before the upgrade.
> Now, when I start named, it spawns 4 additional named's so that 5 named's 
> are actually running.  Is it normal?  If not, why is it happening?

	Did you read the FAQ?  Is the FAQ included in the RPM?
	Yes it's normal for a threaded application under Linux.
 
> 2.
> I get lots of these in /var/log/messages:
> 
> named[24826]: client 198.22.121.119#3492: query 
> 'perfectly.valid.local.address/IN' denied,
> 
> where "perfectly.valid.local.address" is an address of some local machine.  
> The query looks legitimate to me.  Why is it being rejected?

	Because you configured named to reject it.

> Thanks
> 
> 
> Frank Bures, <grandial at pons dot cz> 
> 
> 
> 
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