From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 18:27:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04450 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 18:27:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04426 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 18:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02252; Sun, 17 May 1998 18:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <355F8E80.38F9A183@dal.net> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 18:27:28 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MP CC: Mark Segal , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many open files problem References: <3.0.1.32.19980517173244.006a1a24@icorp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG MP wrote: > > 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. You are probably using BIND 4.9.6. The feature you're looking for is in BIND 8.1.2. http://www.isc.org/ for more info. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message