I have a bad feeling about this. Below are the first few lines after a reboot. It seems to me that bind cannot possibly start before the kernel has finished loading. Any comments and hints will really be appreciated.
Regards, Philippe Clérié Oct 1 08:07:48 taurus kernel: klogd 1.3-3#33.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Oct 1 08:07:48 taurus kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.2.17 Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[143]: starting (/etc/bind/named.conf). named 8.2.3-REL-NOESW Sat Jan 27 01:46:37 MST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/bdale/debian/bind-8.2.3/src/bin/named Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[143]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[143]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded (serial 1) Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[143]: master zone "127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1) Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[143]: master zone "0.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1) Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[143]: master zone "255.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1) < other zones loaded here > Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[143]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo) Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[143]: listening on [192.168.5.1].53 (eth0) < listening on device eth1 here > Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[143]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].1024 Oct 1 08:07:49 taurus named[144]: Ready to answer queries. Oct 1 08:07:50 taurus kernel: Loaded 9577 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.2.17. Oct 1 08:07:50 taurus kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.17. Oct 1 08:07:50 taurus kernel: Loaded 6 symbols from 1 module. Oct 1 08:07:50 taurus kernel: Linux version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Tue Dec 19 11:16:08 EST 2000 Oct 1 08:07:50 taurus kernel: Detected 99474 kHz processor. Oct 1 08:07:50 taurus kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Oct 1 08:07:50 taurus kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 198.66 BogoMIPS Oct 1 08:07:50 taurus kernel: Memory: 47272k/49152k available (744k kernel code, 412k reserved, 684k data, 40k init)