Memory issue?

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Hello there, anyone know why named would spit out syntax errors that don't
exist?  i.e. 'Syntax error near "m"'.  I know that there really isn't a
syntax error there because I ran nslint and all it gave me was warnings
about invalid PTR records (which makes sense since 80% of our domains point
to hosts outside our network).

I also should point out that ndc won't do anything.  When I try to use it to
start named I always get "named has not started yet(?)".  When I tell it to
"ndc restart" it always tells me "named is not running" and starts another
instance of named.

My server is hosting over 400,000 domains, but only has 64 megs of RAM.
When we purchased it, it was host to only about 100,000 domains.  Even with
400,000, named still only uses about 50% of the RAM (according to ps aux
anyway).

Could these mysterious syntax errors be due to a lack of memory?

Thanks,

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