Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 19:25:07 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: MP <mlistbsd@icorp.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many open files problem - semi corrected Message-ID: <3560ED83.18165868@dal.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518153325.9951B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > Named8 is smarter about IP aliases. The old BIND would open each > interface *and all of it's aliases* for reading, which was silly. On > systems with lots of IP aliases it would run out of file descriptors. The > new BIND8 (and older versions of bind4.9) would get it right and only open > the primary IP of an interface. Bind4.9 had a directive to fix it I > think. You have that a little backwards. By default BIND 4 and 8 bind to all available interfaces. BIND 8 has a configuration option to change that behaviour so that it only listens on the interfaces you specify. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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