Is this normal?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <011d01bf1775$f17bd420$b577a8ce at acmebw.com>,
Cricket Liu <cricket at acmebw.com> wrote:
>> 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.

But it should only do this once.  The first message is normal, but the
second one, which says that the same message was logged 8 times in a row,
is not.  It sounds to me like the named.conf file has 8 'zone "."'
commands, but it only needs one of them.

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