To add more than 500 ips

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I have a server, which has more than of 1000 ip address, but only 500 ip address are responding in the Server. Here below the error message received while restarting the named

Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: creating IPv4 interface eth0:595 failed;
interface ignored
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:596,
74.50.91.156#53
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: could not listen on UDP socket: not enough
free resources
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: creating IPv4 interface eth0:596 failed;
interface ignored
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:597,
74.50.91.157#53
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: could not listen on UDP socket: not enough
free resources
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: creating IPv4 interface eth0:597 failed;
interface ignored
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:598,
74.50.91.158#53
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: could not listen on UDP socket: not enough
free resources
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: creating IPv4 interface eth0:598 failed;
interface ignored
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:599,
74.50.91.160#53
Sep 22 00:25:00 ns2 named[30101]: could not listen on UDP socket: not enough
free resources

Please let me know how to activiate the other 500 ip address in the SErver.

2

have a look here:
Linux: Increasing the number of open file descriptors

3

I have values more than that, as specified in the url given. The ip's more than 500 are not listening to the 53 port...

4

i don't know WHICH resources are full... my first post was only a guess. review your resources an check what's the problem. i don't know linux that good but the tools schould be someting like:

vmstat
mpstat
top
iostat
...
5

Hey, its not related to the command that you have given.

6

Maybe you should post on ip-networking - The UNIX and Linux Forums for named tuneup question or Linux - The UNIX and Linux Forums for specific Linux question.

Your thread title is irrelevant.