named.reload on bind 8.2 kills named

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

	Thanks for pointing out this overcite is starting
	named-xfer. 

	Mark

> Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> > 
> > > > 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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> 
> Actually I have seen this with BIND 8.2.1 it seems to be because of
> something that hasn't closed- I see this using the new ndc control
> rpogram and doing a restart (AIX 4.3)  It seems to happen when a number
> of transfers are taking palce at the same time of the restart (the
> transfers aren't killed).  I corrected this be not using the restart
> option and using stop and the start a minute later.
> 
> 
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