named dies mysteriously

[Jeff Davis <jdavis@dynworks.com>]

I am running bind 8.2.2p7-1.

Every couple days, I notice that named is just not running. No errors in 
syslog, nothing. Before I had a couple duplicate entries in the 
named.conf file, and I thought maybe removing them fixed the problem, 
but it didn't. All I can do is just restart the daemon. I would prefer 
to not wait it out continuously because I don't like the downtime, but I 
did turn on a debugging option in ndc (hasn't crashed since then, but I 
think it is only a matter of when).

Thanks for any advice,
  Jeff Davis