Hello, This question is more like hitting in the dark, I guess. We have a primary and secondary DNS server. Twice or thrice so far since "named" automatically failed. Eg. on those times, I simply typed "/etc/rc.d/init/named restart" It showed "STOP - FAILED", "START - OK", after which things were normal. I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers what could cause "named" to be down automatically simultaneously on both primary and secondary DNS servers. Individually each of the servers function properly. So, there should be some event (which got unlogged) which trigerred both servers to shut down "named"? There was nothing abnormal in the log files. Also, "named" was down on both primary and secondary DNS servers on each occasion. Thanks Tony - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html