Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:33:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Joe Karthauser <jlk@pavilion.co.uk> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: jlk@pavilion.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: INET aliases and BIND Message-ID: <199611221233.MAA16546@deputy.pavilion.co.uk> 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 > -- Josef Karthauser (jlk@pavilion.net) Technical Manager [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073] Pavilion Internet plc. ._ .. _. _ ._.. .. .._. . __. ._. ._ _. _..
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