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? moussa

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:01:54 +0000 "Moussa Fall" <moussaf@enda.sn> wrote:

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Can anybody please help solve this problem. Whenever I start named I have the following message:

biding tcp socket : address already in use. What this means is that some process is already listening on the named socket. Check to make sure that named is not already running. Additionally, sockets have a certain persistence. When you close a socket, there is a short time where it cannot be reopened, but we are talking seconds, not minutes. You should use the named script in /etc/init.d. SuSE sets up symlinks in /sbin, (eg. rcnamed). rcnamed status # checks to see if named is running rcnamed stop # Stop named rcnamed start # Start named rcnamed restart # stops and starts named.

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