Bind Shutdown

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Robin" == Robin  <rbrady at austin.rr.com> writes:

    Robin> I am running FreeBSD 4.2-Release with Bind 8.2.3-T6B and
    Robin> occasionally Bind just quits with the following logged
    Robin> message:

    Robin> /kernel: pid 123 (named), uid 53: exited on signal 6

    Robin> Any ideas what might be causing this?

Something on your system is sending signal number 6 (IOT or ABRT) to
the process. You should also upgrade to 8.2.3. All previous versions
of BIND8 have security holes.