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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: named : socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files - exiting Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:18:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <572rg8$moi@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3289525D.258A@onthenet.com.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> wrote: > We have a problem with named on FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE. The machine in > question is a virtual Web server with about 66 domains. It boots > correctly but if we add a new domain and "kill -HUP" named, it fails to > open it's UDP sockets and gives the above error. Bump the allowed number of open descriptors for named. See the ulimit builtin of /bin/sh. (IIRC, named binds to each address of a machine, and the default limit on descriptors per process is 64.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)