If you notice in the tutorial, it says - for Sarge - to modify the /etc/default/bind9 so bind runs as the unprivileged user 'bind'. Problem is, later on we chroot everything to the user 'nobody' I changed the opts= line in /etc/default/bind9 as per the instructions but used 'nobody' instead of 'bind' and it all worked fine - got rid of both the 'connect failed' AND the 'named.pid' error in syslog !. btw: Great howto - but I guess even the greatest stuff can have errors :)