From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 12 11:22:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA21189 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:22:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA21147 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id MAA13171; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:21:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.ampr.ab.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07717; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:14:39 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:14:38 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko X-Sender: marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca To: Jason Fesler cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970211083120.009b2c70@pop.calweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Jason Fesler wrote: > At 11:33 AM 2/10/97 -0800, Dan Busarow wrote: > >> Does it have to do with the number of V hosts? Is 125 really high? > > > >It might. If you're running named on this machine it may be having > >problems caused by binding to all the addresses. If you are running > >named on this machine try turning it off and pointing to another > >nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf > > We have *definately* seen this behavior; I've also read about this in > an FAQ somewhere (where, I don't remember... the grey matter upstairs > went on strike). We *tried* to run DNS on such a server (400 hosts), > and it kept dying, not starting, etc *after* the IP aliases were defined. > It would do fine if we started *before*. We ended up moving the DNS > server to a different machine (it was only a secondary) instead of > reading the source code due to time constraints. There is a patch that someone (Mark Andrews?) made available once that adds a directive to specify which addreses named should listen on. I have it around somewhere, updated for a recent version of BIND, and can make it available if people want.