From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Feb 26 12:44:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2DE37BFEA for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:44:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@simplenet.com) Received: from simplenet.com (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27863; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:44:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@simplenet.com) Message-ID: <38B83B3D.69FAB013@simplenet.com> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:44:45 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: james@icorp.net Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird error from named References: <38B7AAE5.28E60406@icorp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Please send future questions of this sort to freebsd-questions, thanks. James wrote: > > I'm getting the following error in my messages log - does anyone have an > idea why? > > Feb 26 03:09:52 myhost named[945]: evSelectFD(dfd=256): Invalid argument > > Feb 26 03:09:52 myhost named[945]: deleting interface > [204.108.211.79].53 This looks like you have a very large number of interfaces on your machine and named is trying to bind to them all but running out of file descriptors. Without knowing what versions of freebsd and BIND you're using it's hard to say how you should fix this. Good luck, Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message