From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 11 18:45:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13019 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:45:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13014 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:44:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA17660; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:44:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:44:11 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Lutz Rabing cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND named 4.9.7-T1B too many open files In-Reply-To: <199901120049.BAA14001@office.omc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Lutz Rabing wrote: > We just upgraded one of our systems to 2.2.8 and get this message from named: > > ------ > Jan 12 01:25:32 named[827]: starting. named 4.9.7-T1B Mon Nov 30 03:56:49 GMT 1998 jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/o > bj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named > Jan 12 01:25:32 abc named[827]: fcntl(dfd, F_DUPFD, 20): Too many open files > Jan 12 01:25:32 abc last message repeated 13 times > Jan 12 01:25:34 abc named[828]: Ready to answer queries. > Jan 12 01:25:34 abc named[828]: Return from getdtablesize() > FD_SETSIZE > ------ > > The machine is a webserver with 250 IPs aliased to the nic. If we add more IP's > to the system named refuses to start. Upgrade bind to 8.1.2 and use the listen-on option to keep bind from binding to every IP on the box. listen-on { 5.6.7.8; }; BTW, named has always had this limit, it wasn't the upgrade to 2.2.8 that caused it. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message