Subject: Re: ntpd failing because of "too many open files"?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/02/2006 20:22:56 
In article <200605021654.k42GsmpK008372@guild.plethora.net>,
Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> wrote:
>I occasionally see this:
>
>ntpd [634]: socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) failed on address fe 80::1:
>too many open files.
>
>1.  Anyone else?
>2.  Can ntpd be simply configured not to do IPv6?
>3.  Is there another obvious workaround or fix?

raising the open file limit?

christos