On Wed Feb 14 03:24:22 2018, mkrishna@palcnetworks.com wrote: > Is there any way where I can get the advanced version of the code as > compared to 4.3.6 which I am using? => 4.4.0 is on hold for annoying bugs. 4.4.1 should be issued in a few days. > > => you have reached the silly (but not real) limit of 1000 open > > file descriptors of Linux. As it often hurts with named there are > > a lot of documentation about to break this limit. => there are 2 limits: - FD_SETSIZE macro: you should look at what is the value in the header file. Of course you can increase it by recompiling. - soft limit: enter in shell "ulimit -n 5000" (try this first at it does not require to recompile something).