differences between "ndc /status" and syslog message

[Kevin Darcy]

K.Ikeda wrote:

> Hi all.
>
>  I'm setting up my domain, and using bind-8.2.1 on RedHat Linux.
> But domain name query does not work corectly. I check named status using
> "ndc" command. It says "server IS NOT loading its configuration file".
> But I check syslog output, it says "named[xxx]: Ready to answer queries"
> and no error reported.I wrote configuration file(perhaps correctly) and put
> those default directory(/etc/named.conf , /var/named/*).

It's just bad wording. It really means "server is not *currently* loading its
configuration file". I can't believe they didn't fix this for 8.2.3...


- Kevin