too many open files

[Barry Margolin]

In article <390590AA.C013D819 at rds.ro>,
Florin Andrei  <fandrei at mail.rds.ro> wrote:
>
>	I'm running bind-8.2.2_P5 on Red Hat Linux 6.2 (it's the original bind
>provided with the distribution); the machine is a more-or-less regular
>PentiumIII setup.
>
>	I have many IP alias interfaces on eth0 - about 1000 aliases or so. When i
>start bind, the process starts listening on the first 500 interfaces with
>no problem:
....
>	How can i enable bind to listen to MANY (virtual) interfaces?

Do you really need it to listen on all its virtual interfaces?  If so, use:

options {
  files 1000; // Or whatever you need the limit to be
  ...
};

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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