> on booting into multiuser I noticed the following error messagen:
> 
> 	writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable
> 	add host hotdog.apana.org.au: gateway localhost: Network is unreachable
> 
> and
> 
> 	kvm_mkdb: netbsd: bad magic number: Inappropriate file type or format

these are normal.

Things work in spite of the former, so i've never bothered to track it
down.

The latter is caused by the fact that kvm_mkdb doesn't understand COFF
symbols.


> also named-xfer prints the following message:
> 
> 	hotdog named-xfer[703]: malformed SOA from 203.14.158.13, zone 1
> 	24.3.203.in_addr.arpa to short
> 
> It also seems that the system has difficulties in translating hostnames
> and ip-addresses.

this is because the BIND code, especially the 'independent programs'
like named, nslookup, etc., is _NOT_ currently 64-bit safe.

Work is being done to integrate the latest version of the BIND code
into NetBSD, and that may solve this problem.

I would _strongly_ discurage people from running named until a new
version of BIND is imported.



chris