BIND9 does not respond at all

[Brian]

I am having a problem with BIND9 on our internal DNS server.  named is 
running and I can see it listening on ports using 'netstat -nlp'.  It 
creates log entries in /var/log/messages, though there are no clues in 
there either.

However, when I try to make a query, it simply does not respond. 
/etc/resolv.conf is pointed at the correct IPs.  Even when I use rndc, 
it does not respond to commands like 'rndc stats' or anything else.  To 
shut it down I must use 'kill -9'.

Currently it's only configured as a caching server, though I have also 
tried to set up a zone.  Even the queries for the zone do not get a 
response.

Does anyone have any ideas I can try to track this down?  Running bind 
9.2.3, on Redhat linux 9 w/ kernel 2.4.20-smp.  Here is my configure line:
../configure --prefix=/usr --with-libtool --with-openssl --enable-threads 
--sysconfdir=/etc/bind --localstatedir=/var

Thank you!