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Date:      Thu, 22 Feb 1996 15:24:41 PST
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        Stephen Waits <swaits@pr.erau.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Too many IP aliases?? 
Message-ID:  <96Feb22.152444pst.177479@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Feb 1996 09:10:37 PST." <Pine.SOL.3.91.960222100611.10001A-100000@moon.pr.erau.edu> 

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In message <Pine.SOL.3.91.960222100611.10001A-100000@moon.pr.erau.edu>you write
:
>Okay, I've got about 260 IP aliases on my machine now..  
>
>Feb 22 10:04:46 prescott named[691]: socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open 
>files - exiting
>
>Are they related?

Perhaps.  named is probably trying to open a socket for each alias, and runs 
out of file descriptors.  Have you tried 'limit openfiles 360' before running 
named?

  Bill




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