not listening on tcp

[Barry Margolin]

In article <d6q1v8$2as$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Maria Iano <maria at iano.org> 
wrote:

> I ran netstat -a and saw that nothing was listening to port 53 at the 
> time. Then I restarted Bind and saw that tcp 53 was being listened to, 
> and tcp DNS queries were answered. Then I restarted Bind and netstat -a 
> showed tcp port 53 was not being listened to, and tcp DNS queries were 
> not answered, and then I restarted Bind and tcp port 53 was being 
> listened to and tcp DNS queries were answered, and so on...  It 
> appeared to be alternating, but I only restarted it about 7 times so 
> that could easily just be coincidence.

I'll ask again -- is named logging any errors during the cases when it 
fails?

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***