From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 15:35:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23556 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:35:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23485 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:34:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10265; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:34:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:34:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: MP cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many open files problem - semi corrected In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980517190106.0069c428@icorp.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 May 1998, MP wrote: > 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). 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. > Someone should put this issue in the F.A.Q. (!!) It's in the BIND FAQ already, I think. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message