At Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:36:13 -0400, "Jeff Lightner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On RHEL5 with kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 the results are OK with the > -r but not without (it failed at 1022 sockets without). > > It makes me wonder though - does BIND (named) automatically do what > the -r flag of selecttest is doing? Does it matter whether named For P2, yes (unless you specify a small value for the 'files' option in named.conf). For P1, no (unless you specify 'unlimited' for the 'files' option in named.conf). > is running as root or a different user? That is to say does the I don't think so. > above test being successful with -r flag mean that I can be > confident named is opening a wide range of ports? For P2, yes (but you'll have to build BIND with a reasonable large value of ISC_SOCKET_FDSETSIZE). For P1, no. --- JINMEI, Tatuya Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
