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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!btinternet!usenet From: Neil Fowler Wright <neil@corpex.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: bind problems and installation Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:04:59 +0100 Organization: Corpex Limited Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3235596B.41C67EA6@corpex.com> References: <322E9CAF.41C67EA6@corpex.com> <Dx9vy7.IMp@ora.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaneda.corpex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> Christoph Badura wrote: > > In <322E9CAF.41C67EA6@corpex.com> Neil <neil@corpex.com> writes: > >However I thought I'd ask whether FreeBSD bind suffered the same failure > >as Sun bind. When ifconfig is used to allocate multiple IP's to the > >same machine, bind will not restart if there are more than 64 IP's > >allocated. Hence to restart bind, the machine must be restarted. > > Currently, BIND has this problem on all machines. This is because it binds > a socket to the address of every running interface of the machine. Each of > these sockets uses up a file descriptor. The limit on open file descriptors > is 64/256 on SunOS. I believe it is higher by default on FreeBSD. I have finally compiled and installed bind 4.9.4 but it does die at 64 ifconfig aliases. > In anycase you could raise the limit for bind. Can you explain how to do this.. I asume it's a simple edit to one of the include files. Cheers, Neil