DNS Help

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Aug 5 22:02:04 UTC 1999


In article <37AA0786.59F507F6 at cisco.com>,
Michael Voight  <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote:
>Sorry, I don't have an answer, but why would you put 120 addresses on an
>interface?

You've never heard of virtual servers?  Presumably his nameserver is also a
web server.

>James Nessen wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>>   I just upgraded to bind 8.2.1 on a BSDI 4.0.1 server.  Whenever I
>> start it up, I am getting accept: Too many files open errors.  I also
>> have about 120+ ip addresses bound to one ethernet interface.  Is
>> there a way that I can tell bind to just listen on 1 IP address as
>> opposed to trying to bind itself to all 120?

Use the "listen-on" option.

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