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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:39:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.gov.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Lame DNS question (can't set maxfiles to default after upgrade to Bind 8.2.4/FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p3)
Message-ID:  <20020425203452.T69694-100000@master.gorean.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020426131917.C9401@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>

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	This would actually be better on freebsd-stable, for future
reference.


On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:

> After an upgrade from an old 4.3-STABLE to 4.5-RELEASE-p3, bind can no
> longer set the number of open files to the system limit.
>
> Instead on the problem boxes, I see the following after restarting bind.
>
>
> Apr 26 12:38:00 wins named[22746]: reloading nameserver
> Apr 26 12:38:00 wins named[22746]: setrlimit(max number of open files):
> Operation not permitted
> Apr 26 12:38:00 wins named[22746]: Ready to answer queries.
>
> On other words, it seems highly unlikely that replication will work.

	What do you mean by replication? In any case, does this still
happen if you start named as root? That should give you an indication of
whether it's a login.conf problem. Also, did you run cap_mkdb after
editing login.conf? If the problem persists when starting the server as
root, post your login.conf file in your response.

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