Jerry, finally the error message disappeared after I tried many things but the most important one was probably commenting out the ipv6 statement in /etc/named.conf. It was using the same port apparently... Thank you.

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:47:15 +0000 "Moussa Fall" wrote:

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Thank you, Jerry for answering so quickly to my msg. I checked the status and it indicated that the server is up and running! But I still have the biding error in my /var/log/messages. Shall I worry about this? -- background --- When a server wants to listen onto a server, it first uses the bind(2) system call to bind the socket. If the socket is currently bound, the system call will fail.

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If you see this message on system startup, then it indicates that you are trying to run more than one name daemon. You can stop the name daemon, wait a short time, then start it. You should not see that message. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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