>  The good news is that I get no more core dumps from named.
>
>  The bad news is that sending named a SIGHUP will now terminate it.
>
>  However, rndc reconfig works so this is not a problem for me.

This particular problem (HUP terminates named) should be fixed with
revision 1.5 of

   src/usr.bin/bind/include/config.h

This revision has been applied to netbsd-3 and netbsd-3-0 as well.

Best regards,

- H=E5vard