error: socket: too many open file

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:29:22 -0700 (PDT),
jyoung at trytel.com wrote:

> I upgraded from BIND 9.2.4 to 9.5.0-P1 on a Solaris 10 SPARC server.

[snip]

> So I tried recompiling BIND with:
> STD_CDEFINES='-DFD_SETSIZE=4096' ./configure --without-openssl
> make
> 
> But still didn't work.

Redefining FD_SETSIZE has no effect for P1.  Use 9.5.0-P2 instead
(with redefining FD_SETSIZE).

I'd also suggest you use a "more conservative" version of P2, namely
9.4.2-P2 or 9.3.5-P2 for migration from a 9.2.  9.5 has other
ambitious changes than port randomization and is still in a 'point-0'
release (i.e. 9.x.0), so it can be relatively less stable.  In fact,
we've recently fixed several bugs specific to 9.5.  Unless you need
features only available in 9.5, it's safer to stick to older versions,
especially when introducing a very big change (i.e., port
randomization).

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.