On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 07:39 +0530, Khalid wrote: > named service is stop automatically giving this error > > named[1018]: task.c:395: REQUIRE((((task) != ((void *)0)) && (((const > isc__magic_t *)(task))->magic == ((('T') << 24 | ('A') << 16 | ('S') > << 8 | ('K')))))) failed > named[1018]: exiting (due to assertion failure) I've not had it do anything like that for me (no crashes, at all). I think you might need to post your config files, and samples of your DNS records, for someone to see if they can spot a flaw in them. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.