Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 19:01:06 -0500 From: MP <mlistbsd@icorp.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: too many open files problem - semi corrected Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980517190106.0069c428@icorp.net> In-Reply-To: <01bd81db$041a5f20$0201010a@elmo>
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At 05:30 PM 5/17/98 -0400, Mark Segal wrote: >This is a simple fix... by default bind 8.1.x trys to open listen on every >ip bound to the machine.. it it will answer a dns query on every ip. This >is useless.. because you only need to listen on the localhost, and the ip >that is registered with the InterNIC, so the simple fix is, use the >listen-on directive in your options section of the named.conf. Just FYI for those on the list - and since I've seen TONS of questions on this issue in the mailing list archives - very few of which offer real solutions... I upgraded from bind 4.9.6 which comes with 2.2.6 by default, to 8.1.2, and upon installation and conversion of the named.boot => named.conf, my problem disappeared - named loads properly. (although there are bugs in the perl-based configuration program, especially if you use the "xfernet" directive). I haven't fully tested the system yet, and I HATE the new named.conf format - it's as if the developers had a meeting and spent quite a bit of time considering how much WORSE could they make the dns config file format... well, they did a dandy job!!! It sucks... Not to mention that bind8 is about 300% larger than bind4... Anyway, enough of my bitching - after about 5 hours fiddling with this, it works, so I'm not going to complain too much - only later when I have to maintain the dns configuration... :| Someone should put this issue in the F.A.Q. (!!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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