Is this normal?
Jim Reid
jim at mpn.cp.philips.com
Mon Oct 18 15:27:53 UTC 1999
>>>>> "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.
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