Just upgraded 7.0 to fisher. The installer falls over so I upgraded the RPMs by hand, although this shouldn't have any bearing on the issue. The problem is that named has been compiled with thread support meaning that on a single-cpu machine it has to be run as root. This is a terrible security flaw, especially with the bugs reported in BIND the other week. [root@queeg /root]# rpm -q bind bind-9.1.0-2
named with thread support does NOT need to run as root if you're running kernel 2.4.x. fisher is 2.4.x based, so there is no problem. On a side note, the bugs found recently were in the bind 8.x code base, not 9.x. 9.x is a complete rewrite because 8.x sucked. Running it as root is still a bad thing though. Fortunately it's not necessary.