From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 17:03:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20543 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 17:03:06 -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 RAA20508 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 17:02:43 -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 AAA08262 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 00:02:35 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980517190106.0069c428@icorp.net> X-Sender: mlistbsd@icorp.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 19:01:06 -0500 To: From: MP Subject: Re: too many open files problem - semi corrected 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. Just FYI for those on the list - and since I've seen TONS of questions on this issue in the mailing list archives - very few of which offer real solutions... I upgraded from bind 4.9.6 which comes with 2.2.6 by default, to 8.1.2, and upon installation and conversion of the named.boot => named.conf, my problem disappeared - named loads properly. (although there are bugs in the perl-based configuration program, especially if you use the "xfernet" directive). I haven't fully tested the system yet, and I HATE the new named.conf format - it's as if the developers had a meeting and spent quite a bit of time considering how much WORSE could they make the dns config file format... well, they did a dandy job!!! It sucks... Not to mention that bind8 is about 300% larger than bind4... Anyway, enough of my bitching - after about 5 hours fiddling with this, it works, so I'm not going to complain too much - only later when I have to maintain the dns configuration... :| Someone should put this issue in the F.A.Q. (!!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message