From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 19:26:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14094 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 19:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14024 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 19:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26778; Mon, 18 May 1998 19:25:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <3560ED83.18165868@dal.net> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 19:25:07 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: MP , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many open files problem - semi corrected References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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