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From: Joe Karthauser <jlk@pavilion.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: INET aliases and BIND
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:33:17 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199611221216.GAA10396@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Nov 22, 96 06:16:29 am
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This hits the mark,  Thanks.
Joe.

> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've got an interesting question to do with BIND running on a machine
> > with IP aliases.
> > 
> > My machine is running FreeBSD2.1.5 (straight off the CD) and has an
> > entire class C of /32 inet aliases attached to the ethernet card.  This
> > is to facilitate a batch of virtual ftp servers.  The problem is this.
> > I also want to run named on the machine, and when I start it I get:
> > 
> > Nov 22 10:32:40 dougal named[2019]: starting.  named LOCAL-960717.011537 Wed Jul 17 01:15:37  1996      jkh@whisker.cdrom.com:/usr/src/usr.sbin/named
> > Nov 22 10:32:40 dougal named[2019]: socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files - exiting
> > 
> > I guess that named doesn't like binding inaddrany, how can this be solved?
> > 
> > Cheers in advance for any help,
> > All the best,
> > Joe.
> 
> named opens a separate socket for each (virtual) interface it finds.
> 
> You might need to change the invocation to something like "csh -c unlimit
> descriptors; named", as you are probably banging into the per process
> descriptor limit.
> 
> ... JG
> 


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