isc_socket_create: fcntl/reserved: Too many open files

Dmitry Rybin kirgudu at corbina.net
Mon Dec 7 13:14:31 UTC 2009


Hi! RTFM :)

/etc/security/limits.conf
binduser       soft    nofile  32384
binduser       hard    nofile  32384


change binduser - to you real BIND user.

john wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm seeing this quite frequently in syslog from bind:
> 
> Dec  7 11:00:00 ext named[26731]: isc_socket_create: fcntl/reserved: Too 
> many open files
> Dec  7 11:00:00 ext named[26731]: isc_socket_create: fcntl/reserved: Too 
> many open files
> 
> Googling found someone asked before on here in February and was advised 
> to upgrade to 9.3.6, however I'm using 9.5.1-P3 (debian release).
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?



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