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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UDP problem on 2.1.6
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 07:44:00 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no>
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Steinar Haug wrote:
> named *does* keep a file descriptor (socket) open per interface on the
> machine. This includes interface aliases, so if you have lots of these,
> named will use lots of descriptors.

Ah, my memory was playing me false then - thanks for the elucidation!

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- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.