named startup issue

I have a weird named startup issue. I have a work around by starting it from my own startup script that sleeps 10 seconds then runs "/sbin/service named start" If I have it auto start using "chkconfig named on" it starts but never answers queries untill I ssh to the server via its ip address first. I don't see any relivant error messages that I can use to see why it is not answering before I ssh to it. It is as if it doesn't bring up the interfaces in time.