Address already in use

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Shteingart <samsh at ms.com> writes:

    Sam> I'm running two instances of BIND 8.2.1 on the same machine,
    Sam> listening on different ports.  When I start the second one, I
    Sam> get the following message in the log file:

    Sam> named[18855]: ctl_server: bind: Address already in use

    Sam> Both instances seems to work fine.  Why am I getting the
    Sam> message?

Presumably because both named processes are trying to use the same
control socket - /var/run/ndc or whatever. Tell each process to use a
different pathname and/or inet socket. You can do that with the
controls statement.