Steve, I saw this exact same behavior on a couple of servers with a 4.3-stable build from 7/28. Due to some differences in the way I built the -stable release I decided to try again from scratch. The 8/4 build of bsd + base43.tgz have been working fine. This seems to support the suggestion that patch 005 might help.
-Steve S. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Steve Shockley > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:35 AM > To: Misc > Subject: BIND and file descriptors > > Is anyone having issues between patched BIND and running out of file > descriptors? I saw the thread at http://marc.info/?m=121711077022388, > but that's somewhat vague. ... > About 24 hours later, one of the servers (the primary) died. Named was > still running, the server was still accepting connections on port 53, > but never answering. This became a problem because several other > servers continued to use the primary instead of the secondary because > the primary was "answering" but timing out. Attempts to kill named were > unsuccessful. Load average was near zero.
