What is 'named' task?

[Cave Man]

I have a task called 'named' running and it's taking up 100% of a single core (swtiches cores periodically, but 100% when it does). Any idea what this is and whether I can kill it? It looks like it belongs to Internet Sharing.

Edit: I just turned IS off and it disappeared. Turned IS back on and it seems to have killed 'named'.

 

[chown33]

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/named.8.html