On May 17 2012, Daniel Deighton wrote:
On 05/17/2012 12:20 PM, Chris Thompson wrote:
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named: general: error: socket: file descriptor exceeds limit (4096/4096) last message repeated 1194 times named: general: error: socket: file descriptor exceeds limit (4096/4096) last message repeated 780 times
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It looks like you are reaching an OS limit for open files. On linux, you can check this with 'ulimit -n'. Determining the limit will vary for other operating systems. On what OS are you running BIND?
It is Solaris 10_x86, but I don't think it is an OS-mediated resource limit at all. named increases all those limits to "unlimited" when it starts up, and plimit(1) applied to the running process confirms that. This is a limit being imposed by named itself. When it starts up it announces named: [ID 873579 daemon.info] using up to 4096 sockets which I take to be the same self-imposed limit, changed only via -S, as that message occurs just *before* named: [ID 873579 daemon.info] loading configuration from {pathname} -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users