weird syslog messages

[Barry Margolin]

In article <19991119145454.C27721 at flounder.net>,
Adam D . McKenna <adam-bind at flounder.net> wrote:
>I keep getting these messages in my syslog every hour now after upgrading
>from BIND 8.1.2 to BIND 8.2.2p5:

Are you running named as a user other than root?  Only the superuser can
bind to port 53.

>Nov 17 12:50:51 spotted named[14973]: Cleaned cache of 0 RRs
>Nov 17 12:50:51 spotted named[14973]: bind(dfd=20, [127.0.0.1].53):
>Permission denied
>Nov 17 12:50:51 spotted named[14973]: deleting interface [127.0.0.1].53
>Nov 17 12:50:51 spotted named[14973]: bind(dfd=20, [207.99.50.34].53):
>Permission denied
>Nov 17 12:50:51 spotted named[14973]: deleting interface [207.99.50.34].53
>Nov 17 12:50:51 spotted named[14973]: bind(dfd=20, [207.99.50.35].53):
>Permission denied
>Nov 17 12:50:51 spotted named[14973]: deleting interface [207.99.50.35].53
>Nov 17 12:50:51 spotted named[14973]: not listening on any interfaces
>
>nslookup/dig/etc are still working so I know bind is still listening on these
>interfaces..  So why the error?
>
>--Adam
>


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