[plug] DNS problem has me stumped

[Ben Jensz]

Sol wrote:

>Thankyou for your reply Peter. 
>"ps aux | grep named" gets:
>root	164	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
>root	166	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
>root	167	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
>root	168	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
>root	169	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
>root	1812	0.0	0.1	1336	468	pts/1	S	22:32	0:00	grep named
>
>/var/log/messages had nothing of note to tell me (except a complaint about xfs 
>which I didn't realise was a problem). I just read the manpage for named to 
>work out what that was all about. :-) I've still no idea what the above 
>message is all about. What do these tea leaves have to tell us?
>
>Cheers,
>sol
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Open two terminals and "tail -f /var/log/messages" in one.

And "service named restart" in the other.

See if named complains about anything in messages on a restart.


/ Ben