I may be barking up the wrong tree, but we saw the same problem with Solaris 10 and was not able to change the limits due to a problem with the shared libraries.
Using "export LD_PRELOAD_32="/usr/lib/extendedFILE.so.1" as per the information shown on this page; http://blogs.sun.com/mandalika/entry/solaris_workaround_to_stdio_s seems to have fixed the problem. -- Tom Griffin Data Network Administrator The University of Sheffield Elias wrote: > Hi Jinmei, > I've tried that too, but its still not working. All it does is to just make > BIND run a little longer before the 'too many open file descriptors' error > shows up again. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JINMEI Tatuya / ????" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Elias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <bind-users@isc.org> > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:19 AM > Subject: Re: Issues with BIND 9.5.0-P2 > > > >> At Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:49:30 -0700, >> JINMEI Tatuya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> $ STD_CDEFINES="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ./configure >>> >>> BTW, ISC_SOCKET_FDSETSIZE have any effect on Solaris. What you need >>> to tune is FD_SETSIZE. >>> >> Oops, I meant "ISC_SOCKET_FDSETSIZE *doesn't* have any effect on >> Solaris". >> >> --- >> JINMEI, Tatuya >>