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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
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Subject: Re: how many virtual www server on a 2.2.6 PPro machine ?
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> 
> I've run about 300 on my system.  A PPro 180, 192MB (at the time).
> 
> I carefully made sure there were enough file descriptors.  There was
> one serious problem though: bind 4.9.* could not handle more than
> about 256 interfaces!   I had to do an emergency upgrade to bind
> 8.1.1.

Or don't run BIND on the WWW machine.

Danny

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