named.reload on bind 8.2 kills named

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> > Recently, doing a named.reload has been killing named on our primary
> > NS. I am also getting these messages on my console when I reload:
> > "named[16208]: ctl_server: bind: Address already in use". Those
> > messages about the socket are new, I beleive. Bind is version 8.2
> > running on a BSDI box that has 256 megs of Ram. I killed named then
> > restarted it with the -d 3 flag and looked through the named.run file,
> > and I did not see anything abnormal, but then, I might not know what
> > to look for. A grep for fclose on named.run showed that it succeeded
> > in loading every zone, at least.
> > I frankly am new to this, and would appreciate any helpful
> > suggestions, such how to debug this problem or any other steps I might
> > take.
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> On Solaris systems, this symptom means that the /etc/ndc "FIFO" file
> must be removed before re-starting 'named'.  This bug has been fixed in
> later versions of BIND.
> 
	A Joseph says, upgrade to 8.2.1.  If after you have upgraded you
	stil have this being reported you have two version of named
	running.  BIND 8.2 reports this whenever the server was not
	shutdown cleanly the last time.

	Mark
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