bind-8.2.2-p5 goes catatonic

[Dave Wreski]

> >When trying to resolve www.yahoo.com, it appears to timeout, and report
> >server failed.  Other domains that are not currently in the database
> >are capable of being resolved, as are other common domains such as
> >microsoft.com.  After restarting named, it works fine.
> 
> I had a slight variantion on this problem, and what worked for me, using
> FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE, was to tweak the sysctl knob of maxfiles to double
> the size.

How did you come to the conclusion that increasing maxfiles would even try
to fix the problem?  What gave you the indication that maxfiles was too
low?

Thanks,
Dave