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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 19:25:07 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        MP <mlistbsd@icorp.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: too many open files problem - semi corrected
Message-ID:  <3560ED83.18165868@dal.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518153325.9951B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White wrote:

> Named8 is smarter about IP aliases.  The old BIND would open each
> interface *and all of it's aliases* for reading, which was silly.  On
> systems with lots of IP aliases it would run out of file descriptors.  The
> new BIND8 (and older versions of bind4.9) would get it right and only open
> the primary IP of an interface.  Bind4.9 had a directive to fix it I
> think.

	You have that a little backwards. By default BIND 4 and 8 bind to all
available interfaces. BIND 8 has a configuration option to change that
behaviour so that it only listens on the interfaces you specify.

Doug

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