> I killed and restarted named. > the udp port that named seems to be listening on has now changed to 1026 Both ports are also just above the 1024 barrier for which root is required. Have you increased debug level to see if maybe it reports why/what it's doing? Add -d 5 to the OPTS="" line in /etc/init.d/bind9 file and stop/start it. -- Cipriano Groenendal