From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 12 02:18:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA27528 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from soho.london.virgin.net (soho.london.virgin.net [194.168.38.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27522 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) Received: from kirk.london.virgin.net (kirk.london.virgin.net [194.168.38.227]) by soho.london.virgin.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09722; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:18:11 GMT (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by kirk.london.virgin.net (8.9.1b+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18261; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:18:09 GMT (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kirk.london.virgin.net: scot owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:18:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott To: Stuart Henderson cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND named 4.9.7-T1B too many open files In-Reply-To: <369B1A85.A1B1A0E3@eclipse.net.uk> 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 I seem to remember reading that it's a bad idea to set your name server to be 127.0.0.1 for some reason. Sounds like the sensible thing to do to me - anyone got any ideas about that? Scot. On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Dan Busarow wrote: > > > > 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; }; > > Don't forget to listen on 127.0.0.1 if you do this :-) > > Stuart > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message