BIND Refusing TCP Connections

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Mon Jul 14 11:41:17 UTC 2008


On 10.07.08 06:53, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
> Under what conditions might BIND refuse to accept TCP connections  
> while continuing to accept UDP-based DNS queries?

for example, if it reaches file dcescriptor limit. Since patches for last
cache poisoning vulnerability use more FDs, it's quite common last weeek. If
you did upgrade to not-vulnerable version, this may be the problem -
increase limit of open files for named.

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