From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 25 20:39:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DCB37B445 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Master.gorean.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3Q3dJHt093659; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:39:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Master.gorean.org (zoot [127.0.0.1]) by Master.gorean.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3Q3dLLr070860; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by Master.gorean.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g3Q3dL9u070857; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:39:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Master.gorean.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:39:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: doug@master.gorean.org Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org To: Stanley Hopcroft Cc: FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lame DNS question (can't set maxfiles to default after upgrade to Bind 8.2.4/FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p3) In-Reply-To: <20020426131917.C9401@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> Message-ID: <20020425203452.T69694-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This would actually be better on freebsd-stable, for future reference. On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Stanley Hopcroft wrote: > After an upgrade from an old 4.3-STABLE to 4.5-RELEASE-p3, bind can no > longer set the number of open files to the system limit. > > Instead on the problem boxes, I see the following after restarting bind. > > > Apr 26 12:38:00 wins named[22746]: reloading nameserver > Apr 26 12:38:00 wins named[22746]: setrlimit(max number of open files): > Operation not permitted > Apr 26 12:38:00 wins named[22746]: Ready to answer queries. > > On other words, it seems highly unlikely that replication will work. What do you mean by replication? In any case, does this still happen if you start named as root? That should give you an indication of whether it's a login.conf problem. Also, did you run cap_mkdb after editing login.conf? If the problem persists when starting the server as root, post your login.conf file in your response. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message