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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.gov.au>
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)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10204252002120.6896-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020426131917.C9401@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>

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On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:

...
> 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.

  Only root can use setrlimit() to raise the maximum (hard) limit.  Do you
know how high named is trying to set the limit?

> On other words, it seems highly unlikely that replication will work.
> 
> I have added an entry for BIND to login.conf and remade the 
> login database (with cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf )
...

  Quite likely this all you need to do.  named will not have to
setrlimit() to a higher limit, if the existing limit is ok, right?

Tom


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