From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 02:59:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA00390 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 02:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.nation-net.com (www.nation-net.com [194.159.125.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA00385 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 02:59:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mag.nation-net.com (194.159.125.14) by www.nation-net.com with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:02:26 +0000 Message-ID: <328AFB20.43F1@nation-net.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:57:36 +0000 From: Paul Walsh Organization: NATION-NET is part of the Walsh Simmons Partnership X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help - named overload with IP aliases? X-URL: http://www.WineCellar.co.uk/wc/docs/wworld.html? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After configuring an extra 10 IP aliases, total now around 60, named has quit with the following error: named(3597): socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files - exiting. It wouldn't restart. For now I've removed 5 aliases and it restarted OK. Can anyone suggest what I need to do. I suspect the maxfiles line in the kernel? Regards, Paul Walsh. -- paul@nation-net.com NATION-NET 0161-839 9337 Manchester, UK (http://www.nation-net.com)