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From: HAROLD@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (Harold Pritchett)
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Subject: Re: named going into an infinite loop ...
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Date: 25 Oct 90 15:59:50 GMT
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On Mon, 22 Oct 90 10:52:09 GMT Michel Fingerhut said:
>Machine: DECsystem 5820 (RISC)
>OS:      Ultrix 4.0 (Rev. 179)
>
>Every once in a while (every 3-4 days), the name daemon starts eating CPU
>time, goes to the top of the queue, and fills the syslog error message
>table with messages of the form
>
>	Oct 22 10:23:37 localhost: 93 named: accept: Too many open files
>
>(one a second, approximately) until it is killed and/or chokes /usr/spool.
>Upon restart, it works fine.  There is no apparent flood of requests prior
>to that.

Boy, do I have news for you.  We had that same problem here for approx a
month!!  DEC looked at it, we sent them dumps, they remotely logged onto
our machine, and finally they told us what was wrong!  The "/etc/resolv.conf"
file was mis-configured.

Make SURE that the first nameserver entry in the file points to the loopback
address.  It should look something like this:

domain     your.domain.edu
nameserver 127.0.0.1

We fixed ours, and have not had the problem since and that has been over two
weeks.  We also found that before we fixed the file, named would not dump
cache or stats in response to a kill -INT or kill -IOT command, and this
seems to have fixed that also.

For more information, you may want to contact Therese Grise in the DEC
Nashua, NH office, or Larry Pruitt in Atlanta, GA at (404) 772 2665.

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