Re: maximum number of ip aliases

[Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org>]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Simon Lok wrote:

> I am trying to setup a machine with a large number of
> IP aliases bound to a single interface.  When I do this,
> things seems to be happy to some extent, but sometimes
> I get the message "socket: too many open file descriptors"
> followed by a program quitting.  BIND in particular seems
> to have this problem.

that's a program hitting its file descriptor limit.  see man 
login.conf/limit.

you don't mention what a "large number" is.  it could be six, in which 
case something is setup wrong (low limits) or it could be a million, in 
which case you should probably reevaluate your solution, instead of trying 
to tweak the kernel.





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