Too many open files

[Michael Kjorling]

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Well, I'm not completely familiar with BIND 8.2.4 (you may want to
upgrade to 8.2.5 but that's another matter), but 512 is clearly much
less than 1500.

Try using 'files 2000;' in your named.conf and see if that helps.


Michael Kjörling


On Dec 17 2001 12:57 -0300, Garrido, Alberto wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm having the following error on /var/adm/messages on a Solaris 2.7 with
> bind 8.2.4
>
> ----------
> 		Dec 17 11:51:02 ns2 named[13924]: fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD, 20):
> Too many open files
> 		Dec 17 11:51:16 ns2 last message repeated 224 times
> -----------
>
> The OS is configured with only 1 IP address and named have more than 1500
> zones.
>
> In Options section in named.conf , i recently added the following lines
> without success:
>
>          listen-on port 53 { real-ip-address; };
>          files 512;
>
> Any comment would be appreciate txs!
>
> Rgds,
>
> Alberto
> agarrido at fibertel.net.ar

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