Is this normal?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 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.
> 

 Fixed in BIND 8.2.1

 680.   [feature]       delay parent reload as long as we can after removing
			child zone to save multiple parent reloads.

 Mark
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