Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 06:16:29 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jlk@pavilion.co.uk (Joe Karthauser) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: INET aliases and BIND Message-ID: <199611221216.GAA10396@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199611221115.LAA09973@deputy.pavilion.co.uk> from "Joe Karthauser" at Nov 22, 96 11:15:28 am
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> Hello, > > I've got an interesting question to do with BIND running on a machine > with IP aliases. > > My machine is running FreeBSD2.1.5 (straight off the CD) and has an > entire class C of /32 inet aliases attached to the ethernet card. This > is to facilitate a batch of virtual ftp servers. The problem is this. > I also want to run named on the machine, and when I start it I get: > > Nov 22 10:32:40 dougal named[2019]: starting. named LOCAL-960717.011537 Wed Jul 17 01:15:37 1996 jkh@whisker.cdrom.com:/usr/src/usr.sbin/named > Nov 22 10:32:40 dougal named[2019]: socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files - exiting > > I guess that named doesn't like binding inaddrany, how can this be solved? > > Cheers in advance for any help, > All the best, > Joe. named opens a separate socket for each (virtual) interface it finds. You might need to change the invocation to something like "csh -c unlimit descriptors; named", as you are probably banging into the per process descriptor limit. ... JG
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