BIND Refusing TCP Connections

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

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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