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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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