Now I'm in trouble...

[Bill.Light at kp.org]

> I DO have reverse delegation
I know, it's Andrew JW who said wrongly you don't, I didn't.
 
> Checking for nameserver BIND dead

Correct, there is no name server reachable on
dns1.light-family.com. Your BIND apparently crashed but for a reason
which seems unrelated to its configuration (faulty hardware (dmesg may
help), broken software, ask for Suse-specific trouble, may be).

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Thanks Stephane

OK - Part one corrected....Some googling pointed me to an IPv6 path for my 
error

Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: couldn't add command channel ::1#953: 
address not available

for SuSE 9.2 - /etc/modprobe.conf    I changed two items

alias sit0 ipv6                  changed to:  #alias sit0 ipv6
alias net-pf-10           ipv6   changed to:   alias net-pf-10 none

Curiously enough I now get the warning:

Oct  6 11:41:35 dns1 named[6344]: no IPv6 interfaces found

and farther down:

Oct  6 11:41:35 dns1 named[6344]: command channel listening on 
127.0.0.1#953
Now from an nslookup I get:

Authoritative answers can be found from:
120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa     nameserver = dns1.light-family.com
120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa     nameserver = ns1.4servers.com
120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa     nameserver = ns2.4servers.com
dns1.light-family.com   internet address = 66.124.156.123
ns1.4servers.com        internet address = 168.143.168.1
ns2.4servers.com        internet address = 168.143.171.129
*** No address (A) records available for 66.124.156.123

And  Bind is still running - Yeah !

The last  IP entry in /etc/named.conf  is:

zone "120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa" in {
        type master;
        file "db.66.124.156.120";
};

Finally on to dealing with the files in /var/lib/named ??   SBC sent me a 
one page blurb about adding

123
124
125   etc

as entires to  120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa    it almost looks like IPv5 (I 
know there is no such thing) -- so all my entires now in 
123.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa   now go to the "123" lines of the 
db.66.124.156.120 file ??