Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:14:38 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: Jason Fesler <jfesler@calweb.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970212121334.7569A-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970211083120.009b2c70@pop.calweb.com>
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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Jason Fesler wrote: > At 11:33 AM 2/10/97 -0800, Dan Busarow wrote: > >> Does it have to do with the number of V hosts? Is 125 really high? > > > >It might. If you're running named on this machine it may be having > >problems caused by binding to all the addresses. If you are running > >named on this machine try turning it off and pointing to another > >nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf > > We have *definately* seen this behavior; I've also read about this in > an FAQ somewhere (where, I don't remember... the grey matter upstairs > went on strike). We *tried* to run DNS on such a server (400 hosts), > and it kept dying, not starting, etc *after* the IP aliases were defined. > It would do fine if we started *before*. We ended up moving the DNS > server to a different machine (it was only a secondary) instead of > reading the source code due to time constraints. There is a patch that someone (Mark Andrews?) made available once that adds a directive to specify which addreses named should listen on. I have it around somewhere, updated for a recent version of BIND, and can make it available if people want.
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