socket: too many open file descriptors

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:04:55 -0800 (PST),
pollex <andres.vidoz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Running bind9 9.3.4-2etch3 on Debian etch 4.0(last stable version with
> apt-get install bind9) and I continue to get "socket: too many open
> file descriptors" messages.

This version number is not very informative outside the Debian world.
Please show the initial log message when you invoke named with -g,
which will show the "standard" version number of BIND:

% named -g
18-Nov-2008 14:07:51.316 starting BIND 9.4.2-P2 -g
18-Nov-2008 14:07:51.342 loading configuration from '/private/etc/named.conf'
18-Nov-2008 14:07:51.360 /private/etc/named.conf:4: open: /etc/rndc.key: file not found
18-Nov-2008 14:07:51.361 loading configuration: file not found
18-Nov-2008 14:07:51.361 exiting (due to fatal error)

Also, please show the number of sockets named opens when it warns
about 'too many open file descriptors'.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.