From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 15:35:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05129 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 15:35:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from db1.icorp.net ([204.107.221.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04769 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 15:33:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlistbsd@icorp.net) Received: from paul.icorp.net (p614.accesscom.net [206.160.14.14] (may be forged)) by db1.icorp.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA07941; Sun, 17 May 1998 22:33:53 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980517173244.006a1a24@icorp.net> X-Sender: mlistbsd@icorp.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 17:32:44 -0500 To: "Mark Segal" , From: MP Subject: Re: too many open files problem In-Reply-To: <01bd81db$041a5f20$0201010a@elmo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:30 PM 5/17/98 -0400, Mark Segal wrote: >This is a simple fix... by default bind 8.1.x trys to open listen on every >ip bound to the machine.. it it will answer a dns query on every ip. This >is useless.. because you only need to listen on the localhost, and the ip >that is registered with the InterNIC, so the simple fix is, use the >listen-on directive in your options section of the named.conf. > >-- named.conf -- >options { > directory "/etc/namedb"; > listen-on {127.0.0.1; 204.107.221.20;}; > // other options here >}; I cannot find a named.conf on my system - is this a compile-time option? There seems to be no docs on using "listen-on" in the named boot config file - that would be the ideal place to put such a parameter. Any suggestions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message