hint zone loaded 8 thousand times a day?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9suotn$ckt at pub3.rc.vix.com>,  <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>> In can see in my logging of the namerserver that the hint zone gets
>> loaded over 8000 times a day. Is this normal behaviour? If not, what
>> clue on what could cause this?
>	Fix the expired zones.

Are you saying that every time BIND gets a query in an expired zone, it
will reload the root hint zone?  Why?

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