From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 17:13:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A53114C8E for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 17:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a113.otenet.gr [195.167.115.113]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA17505 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 03:13:28 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 9213 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Oct 1999 00:15:25 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error message References: <19991029181116.19641.rocketmail@web1703.mail.yahoo.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 30 Oct 1999 02:15:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: Godzilla's message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:11:16 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <86so2tiu03.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Godzilla writes: > We are running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE as a SOCKS proxy > server and mail server. This morning when I came in, > I found the following error message: > > Oct 29 11:22:11 SMTP named[30752]: bind(dfd=20, > [192.168.4.9].53): Address already in use It seems that you're trying to run two simultaneous copies of named, or that before named starts some other program has bound port 53 in all your interfaces. Since named is one the few programs I know that bind port 53 in *all* interfaces by default, check to see if your startup scripts are trying to run named twice! -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message