The following reply was made to PR port-cobalt/37247; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-cobalt/37247: named hangs, will not read /etc/named.conf
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:34:12 -0500 (CDT)

 I don't know if this is related. But on NetBSD/i386 3.1, named will also 
 hang when I try to kill it. The process still exists and can't be killed. 
 After I send the kill to it (TERM), rndc can't communicate with it. Kill 
 -9 works.
 
 The above happens when I forget to do "rndc stop" to stop it.
 
   Jeremy C. Reed